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Posted to dev@commons.apache.org by Henri Yandell <ba...@generationjava.com> on 2003/11/16 01:31:29 UTC

Re: Fileupload: fails for forms with a large number of inputs with OurOfMemoryError

Were any of the fileupload committers interested in this patch?

Can't see any obvious replies.

Hen

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Mike Samuel wrote:

> The fileupload package is well-architected, and a pleasure to use, but I ran
> into a problem.  Attached is a test case servlet which repeats the problem with
> the Jun 24, 2003 fileupload-1.0 release.
>
> FileUploadBase.parseRequest runs out of memory when parsing a form with a large
> number of inputs.  The cause seems to be DeferredFileOutputStream which
> allocates a ByteArrayOutputStream per input, each of which preallocates a buffer
> of length inMemoryThreshold.  The in memory threshold defaults to 10k, but if it
> is made larger (> 1 M in our environment), then the vm quickly runs out of
> memory.  Most of this memory is wasted since most files are ~5k, and almost all
> non-file inputs are less than 1k.
>
> I patched DeferredFileOutputStream to use a different underlying in memory
> stream.  I don't really know why ByteArrayOutputStream uses a single byte[],
> since you can't do random access on the underlying buffer anyway.
> I think the patch is something that could be incorporated into the default file
> upload implementation without any noticable change in performance.
>
> If anyone's interested in the patch, should I send it to someone, or check it in
> myself?  I've never contributed any code to apache before so I'm a little fuzzy
> on process.
>
> thanks,
>     mike
>
>


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Re: Fileupload: fails for forms with a large number of inputs with OurOfMemoryError

Posted by Mike Samuel <ms...@google.com>.
I filed this as bug: 24306  The patch is attached.

http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24306
   mike

Henri Yandell wrote:
> Were any of the fileupload committers interested in this patch?
> 
> Can't see any obvious replies.
> 
> Hen
> 
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Mike Samuel wrote:
> 
> 
>>The fileupload package is well-architected, and a pleasure to use, but I ran
>>into a problem.  Attached is a test case servlet which repeats the problem with
>>the Jun 24, 2003 fileupload-1.0 release.
>>
>>FileUploadBase.parseRequest runs out of memory when parsing a form with a large
>>number of inputs.  The cause seems to be DeferredFileOutputStream which
>>allocates a ByteArrayOutputStream per input, each of which preallocates a buffer
>>of length inMemoryThreshold.  The in memory threshold defaults to 10k, but if it
>>is made larger (> 1 M in our environment), then the vm quickly runs out of
>>memory.  Most of this memory is wasted since most files are ~5k, and almost all
>>non-file inputs are less than 1k.
>>
>>I patched DeferredFileOutputStream to use a different underlying in memory
>>stream.  I don't really know why ByteArrayOutputStream uses a single byte[],
>>since you can't do random access on the underlying buffer anyway.
>>I think the patch is something that could be incorporated into the default file
>>upload implementation without any noticable change in performance.
>>
>>If anyone's interested in the patch, should I send it to someone, or check it in
>>myself?  I've never contributed any code to apache before so I'm a little fuzzy
>>on process.
>>
>>thanks,
>>    mike
>>
>>
> 
> 
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Re: Fileupload: fails for forms with a large number of inputs with OurOfMemoryError

Posted by Martin Cooper <ma...@apache.org>.
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Henri Yandell wrote:

>
> Were any of the fileupload committers interested in this patch?

I'm aware of it, and have responded to the bug report. I'll try to address
it more fully when I have a little more time on my hands to pick up where
I left off on FileUpload.

--
Martin Cooper


>
> Can't see any obvious replies.
>
> Hen
>
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Mike Samuel wrote:
>
> > The fileupload package is well-architected, and a pleasure to use, but I ran
> > into a problem.  Attached is a test case servlet which repeats the problem with
> > the Jun 24, 2003 fileupload-1.0 release.
> >
> > FileUploadBase.parseRequest runs out of memory when parsing a form with a large
> > number of inputs.  The cause seems to be DeferredFileOutputStream which
> > allocates a ByteArrayOutputStream per input, each of which preallocates a buffer
> > of length inMemoryThreshold.  The in memory threshold defaults to 10k, but if it
> > is made larger (> 1 M in our environment), then the vm quickly runs out of
> > memory.  Most of this memory is wasted since most files are ~5k, and almost all
> > non-file inputs are less than 1k.
> >
> > I patched DeferredFileOutputStream to use a different underlying in memory
> > stream.  I don't really know why ByteArrayOutputStream uses a single byte[],
> > since you can't do random access on the underlying buffer anyway.
> > I think the patch is something that could be incorporated into the default file
> > upload implementation without any noticable change in performance.
> >
> > If anyone's interested in the patch, should I send it to someone, or check it in
> > myself?  I've never contributed any code to apache before so I'm a little fuzzy
> > on process.
> >
> > thanks,
> >     mike
> >
> >
>
>
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