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Alfresco and Large File Sizes

bawigga — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:34:30 GMT

How well would Alfresco handle large file transfers? We are needing to use Alfresco as a sort of extranet and have clients upload very large datasets. These files would be anywhere from 1-5 GB.

Re: Alfresco and Large File Sizes

mrogers — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:05:11 GMT

Alfresco is basically streaming to and from the filesystem. So if your operating system can handle a file that big then so can alfresco.

Re: Alfresco and Large File Sizes

knixon — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:45:42 GMT

Yes, but is there any recommendation for compression to reduce the file transfer times?

Re: Alfresco and Large File Sizes

mrogers — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:45:07 GMT

I don't know of any recommendation for compression. And any such recommendation would be highly dependent upon your infrastructure and data rather than being a feature of Alfresco.

Personally I don't like compression at the application level since it complicates the application design and often prevents the lower level network services from being able to do their own compression.

I'd recommend you do some tests on your own environment to measure the difference compression makes.

Re: Alfresco and Large File Sizes

intouchcommunic — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:30:04 GMT

I've tested a very small amount of data on our own network its works perfect with alfresco and I hope if compress more heavy files it should works same. Happy with the infrastructure its fully compatible.