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Posted to issues@commons.apache.org by "David Sitsky (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org> on 2008/08/04 08:27:44 UTC

[jira] Created: (IO-175) IOUtils.doCopyFile() issues with very large files and closing file input streams

IOUtils.doCopyFile() issues with very large files and closing file input streams
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                 Key: IO-175
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-175
             Project: Commons IO
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Utilities
            Reporter: David Sitsky
            Priority: Minor
             Fix For: 2.x


I've noticed the code in http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/io/trunk/src/java/org/apache/commons/io/FileUtils.java for doCopyFile() contains:

output.transferFrom(input, 0, input.size());

I know from experience (I had code that did this previously) this will not work on large files, at least under Windows.  By default, the transferFrom() method will try to create a single memory map equal to the size of the input.  If you are running a 32-bit process, and are trying to copy a file gigabytes in size, this will fail as you won't have enough virtual address space to create the memory map.  We had to use transferFrom() in smaller chunk sizes to work around this.

Also I believe in the code of this method, the file input streams need to be closed explicitly, since closing the channel objects that are derived from them will not close any resources held by the file input stream objects themselves.


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[jira] Resolved: (IO-175) IOUtils.doCopyFile() issues with very large files and closing file input streams

Posted by "Niall Pemberton (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-175?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Niall Pemberton resolved IO-175.
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       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s:     (was: 2.x)
                   2.0
         Assignee: Niall Pemberton

Thanks for pointing this out, I have limited the transfer to 50MB chunks and explicitly closed the streams now:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=723199

> IOUtils.doCopyFile() issues with very large files and closing file input streams
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: IO-175
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-175
>             Project: Commons IO
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Utilities
>            Reporter: David Sitsky
>            Assignee: Niall Pemberton
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.0
>
>
> I've noticed the code in http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/io/trunk/src/java/org/apache/commons/io/FileUtils.java for doCopyFile() contains:
> output.transferFrom(input, 0, input.size());
> I know from experience (I had code that did this previously) this will not work on large files, at least under Windows.  By default, the transferFrom() method will try to create a single memory map equal to the size of the input.  If you are running a 32-bit process, and are trying to copy a file gigabytes in size, this will fail as you won't have enough virtual address space to create the memory map.  We had to use transferFrom() in smaller chunk sizes to work around this.
> Also I believe in the code of this method, the file input streams need to be closed explicitly, since closing the channel objects that are derived from them will not close any resources held by the file input stream objects themselves.

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