multiple files download overflow

[krzysiek]

I've tested multiple files download (by checkboxes) with 23 files of total size 4.5 GB. After a minute or so in the process the page timed out. I've checked _tempzipfiles directory, and the zip file was still being created. After a while it successfully finished packing, but there's no way to get that zip using the frontend.
Refreshing the error page started another packing process (and the second timeout), so as a result I had two unavailable 4.5GB zip files. It guess that if I refreshed the page a couple more times I'd overflow my server with temporary zip files.

Possible solutions:
- option for restricting package size
- option to set maximum size of the file that goes inside zip
- option for setting _tempzipfiles max. size
- option for limiting simultaneous packing processes
- switching off checkbox download for certain categories
...are there any other?

[Arno]

Hi,
every server has limitations, so for me it is a fact that the 'multiple files download' feature is only usable with smaller files.
Maybe should we add a special hint in the descriptions.

New options can be useful here but we can add this first in a later release. So i will move this topic to the 'suggestions'.

[krzysiek]

Right now enabling that feature is downright dangerous (even with smaller files - if you keep hitting "refresh" long enough). You have to include some kind of limit.

[Arno]

Hm... i will see what we can do here. But this feature exist since 7 years and nobody else has reported any problems like yours before.