[Moin-devel] Re: Is it true file upload functionality will be removed from 1.4?

[Martin Gignac]

> > Do you *really* plan to remove file attachment support in version 1.4?
> 
> No, I moved the hint to the appropriate section. The possibility of direct
> servement of data will be removed.

I'm happy to hear that. However, I've noticed that if (under Twisted at least) I
try to serve very large files (one of the files I was trying to serve was about
52MB) using the "non-direct" way (using CGI GETs), then the wiki (or Twisted)
slows down to a crawl and hogs all of the CPU. In the end, I just end up having
to kill the process. However, when I serve large files directly (with a normal
GET), then it is Twisted alone that does the file serving and there is no CPU
problem whatsoever. The funny thing is, when I initially upload the 52MB file I
don't get any problems from MoinMoin. So if you get rid of the direct attachment
serving option, won't you prevent "big" attachments from being served on private
or personal sites? Or is the CPU "hogging" I'm experiencing on CGI GETs just due
to a misconfiguration on my part?

Regards,
-Martin