RE: adding very large file to repository fails

chester:

if we do go to lunch, and i get soup, does that count as the lunch?  its just soup.  its not like i gave you an armani suit.  :>}

jeff

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On 1/9/2004 at 9:29 AM Chester Campbell wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Dan and Jeff are right. I owe you a lunch, but I'm not taking you to
>Mindy's. (I wonder if anyone will get that?).
>
>I can now upload my giant file with the memorylimit set to 80.
>Interestingly
>enough, I originally tried 90 and after rebooting the server Vault would
>not
>checkin any file, regardless of size. But at 80 everything works great.
>
>Thanks for the help!
>c
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan Schreiber [mailto:[email protected]] 
>Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 9:15 PM
>To: [email protected]; [email protected]
>Subject: RE: [vault-list] adding very large file to repository fails
>
>
>I would bet lunch at a fine dining establishment that the problem is IIS
>running out of memory.
>
>By default, it kills off processes that consume 60% of available physical
>RAM, and it doesn't seem very smart about how it manages memory for uploads
>- if you watch RAM usage on the server, it will chunk upwards during the
>upload until it hits roughly the size of the file, and then it will briefly
>double in size before releasing it all.  If you have only 512MB of RAM on
>the server, a 125MB file could exceed the 60% limit if other work is taking
>up additional memory in the process.  Look in the event viewer to see if it
>says a worker process exceeded the limit.
>
>I believe there are settings somewhere in IIS that control the threshold
>where it kills off processes.
>
>Also note that IIS seem to be fine on getting very large files.  I guess it
>is smarter for downloads than uploads. :)
>
>Dan Schreiber
>SourceGear
>
>>
>> I'm trying to add a 125MB file to my repository. Using the admin tool 
>> I changed the file upload limit to accommodate this but the upload 
>> fails.
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Chester Campbell Jr.
>> Slingshot, LLC
>
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