[Babase] Question about file upload

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Wed Mar 18 12:06:19 EDT 2009


On 03/17/2009 10:41:44 PM, Catherine Markham wrote:

> I have some files that seem just massive and aren't uploading (though  
> I can upload smaller versions of them), which leaves me a bit stuck.   
> Any thoughts?

I see no reason why you couldn't put 15GB of stuff on the
server.  Especially because the bulk of it is temporary.
However, there's not space for a whole lot more than that
at the moment.  If we're looking at buying disk drives
anyway maybe we want more space?   (Ryan: More spindles
are always good, to a point. :-)

I tried setting the maximum upload size to 5G just to
see what would happen but can't until Ryan does
some more fixing after this weekend's breakage.
Regardless you won't be able to upload more than
either 1.8G or twice that because that's all the
free space we have in /tmp.

Ryan will need to give us more space on our root
partition if we want to support larger uploads.

Jeanne/Susan: We will want _some_ policy about
how much space people can use.  But this is a
people question just to keep things "fair",
not a technical question so long as we've
hardware resources available.

Karl <kop at meme.com>
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                  -- Robert A. Heinlein



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