CentOS - Oct 2006 - file size limit in apache 2.0 on centos 4

I think I am encountering a download file size limit on centos 4 with  
httpd-2.0.52

The file in question is 5.2G in size, it does not show up in a  
browser directory listing, and I'm getting the error in the http  
error_log

value too large for defined data type: access

can someone confirm that there is a 4GB limit (or other) in the  
standard apache 2.0 on CentOS 4?

Tony Schreiner
Boston College

centos-bounces at centos.org <> scribbled on Friday, October 20, 2006 1:32
PM:
> I think I am encountering a download file size limit on centos 4 with
> httpd-2.0.52
> 
> The file in question is 5.2G in size, it does not show up in
> a browser directory listing, and I'm getting the error in the
> http error_log
> 
> value too large for defined data type: access
> 
> can someone confirm that there is a 4GB limit (or other) in
> the standard apache 2.0 on CentOS 4?
> 
> Tony Schreiner
> Boston College
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I thought the limit was 2GB, but I could be wrong.  I also think this
limitation is why the DVD.iso is distributed as a .torrent

Mike

> can someone confirm that there is a 4GB limit (or other) in the
> standard apache 2.0 on CentOS 4?
The file size limitation is in the file system type, ext3 is the
default on CentOS.  There are other file system types that can be used
in a partitiion, such as reiser, jfs, xfs, each with their own
attributes.

Brett

"Brett Serkez" <bserkez at gmail.com> wrote:
> The file size limitation is in the file system type, ext3 is the
> default on CentOS. There are other file system types that can be used
> in a partitiion, such as reiser, jfs, xfs, each with their own
> attributes.
This is not accurate. Apache is simply not compiled with large file support on
CentOS systems. To change this would mean to break binary compatibility, so it
is not likely to change until RHEL5 is released. Or something like that.

robert

Tony Schreiner wrote:
> I think I am encountering a download file size limit on centos 4 with 
> httpd-2.0.52
> 
> The file in question is 5.2G in size, it does not show up in a browser 
> directory listing, and I'm getting the error in the http error_log
> 
> value too large for defined data type: access
> 
> can someone confirm that there is a 4GB limit (or other) in the standard 
> apache 2.0 on CentOS 4?
The limit is 2GB.  While you can compile apache without limit, many 
programs will not work correctly with larger files, and some will simply 
refuse to touch anything larger than 2GB (for example, squid proxy 
server).  With some applications it is just cosmetic stuff (they display 
negative size), some will totally break.

BTW, you should be able to serve files larger than 2GB over FTP. 
Actually, most CentOS mirrors that do carry DVD ISO images serve them 
only over FTP (I think there's only couple that serve them over HTTP too).

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On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 20:58 -0500, Aleksandar Milivojevic
wrote:
> Tony Schreiner wrote:
> > I think I am encountering a download file size limit on centos 4 with 
> > httpd-2.0.52
> > 
> > The file in question is 5.2G in size, it does not show up in a browser
> > directory listing, and I'm getting the error in the http error_log
> > 
> > value too large for defined data type: access
> > 
> > can someone confirm that there is a 4GB limit (or other) in the
standard
> > apache 2.0 on CentOS 4?
I honestly do not know how to change that but You should try breaking
the files into 2GB Pieces, this would solve the issue (Hopefully).