Skip to content  Handling large files in Plone with ore.bigfile
September 21, 2010  Plone The Application is great. Out of the
box it has a set of sensible defaults and features that are
useful for a wide range of use cases. You can install Plone and
without having to make any adjustments start using it
immediately.  The stack that Plone is built on is very flexible,
but if you push the defaults hard enough you will begin to
discover the limits. This is the scaling issue: how does the
application perform under high load. For Plone, as well as many
other web applications, a sure way to increase the load on the
system is to have it process large files. What is a large file?
The answer is ‘it depends’. For purposes of this post we will
assume it is any file large enough to make Plone feel slow for
the end user, or worse result in a time out.  To be clear,
handling large files is not a problem exclusive to Zope/Plone,
it is an issue with many application servers. This description
of the issue come straight from