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File too large error

Added by Newell Jensen at 2011-09-27 09:52 pm

I need to be able to upload and download large files (several GBs).
I have googled a ton and also hit up the IRC channel to see if I could find a solution to this problem that I am seeing but haven't found a solution yet. Maybe someone here can help me.

For my chiliproject install I followed these directions:

https://www.chiliproject.org/projects/chiliproject/wiki/Installation_on_Ubuntu_11_04

This is the error that I am seeing in my /var/log/apache2/error.log:

http://pastebin.com/06AcbKMY

I have checked that there is enough disk space as well:

$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0 459G 22G 414G 5% /
none 2.0G 196K 2.0G 1% /dev
none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm
none 2.0G 60K 2.0G 1% /var/run
none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /var/lock

It should be noted that I tried setting LimitRequestBody but that didn't help any.
I have also made sure that I have the chiliproject setting to 50 GB.
The apache2 version is:

Apache 2.2.17

Anyone else have any suggestions? It would be really nice to get to the bottom of this.

Thanks in advance for any responses! :)

Newell


Replies (5)

RE: File too large error - Added by Felix Schäfer at 2011-10-02 05:44 pm

If it's you I talked to on IRC, just a quick recap of what I said (for others who might find this thread): http is generally not a good protocol for large files, be it up- or download, partially due to the protocol itself (high overhead) but also because the implementations are mostly rather targeted to moving small files fast rather than moving big files. I would suggest to anyone planning on moving files bigger than, say 1GB (this is a gut feeling and in no way something I've tested), to look into using ftp, ftps or sftp to move those files.

Now regarding your particular error:

Newell Jensen wrote:

This is the error that I am seeing in my /var/log/apache2/error.log:

http://pastebin.com/06AcbKMY

This is an error in passenger dying on a too large file, I've googled it real quick but couldn't find anything, you might have better luck correcting that problem by asking on a passenger board or mailing list.

RE: File too large error - Added by Tammo Tjarks at 2011-11-08 10:05 pm

Is there a way to integrate the ftp protocoll directly inside ChiliÃœroject. E.g. for the files-section? I would like to have something like an archive where the provided files can also be annotated with additional informations (e.g. issues, to document, what has been corrected from one file to another).

Regards,
Tammo

RE: File too large error - Added by Felix Schäfer at 2011-11-09 07:41 am

Tammo Tjarks wrote:

Is there a way to integrate the ftp protocoll directly inside ChiliÃœroject.

The only way I know would be to point the repository section with the repository type "file" (I think) to the directory you upload files to with ftp. That way, you would have the documents in your project as any repository, e.g. the source: links should work too.

RE: File too large error - Added by Tammo Tjarks at 2011-11-09 10:31 am

Ok, I will try that out. Thank you for the idea. I thought you may have implemented the files section of ChiliProject with ftp. The are also files with a size above 5MB.

Regards,
Tammo

RE: File too large error - Added by Eric Davis at 2011-11-10 06:05 pm

Great idea Felix, I forgot about that repository type.

Eric Davis

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