With a small chunk size (the previous chunk size was 8k), the server needs to make many read/write operations which was consuming a lot of memory from Kimchi server for larger files. So increase it to 1MB to do not overload the server. Signed-off-by: Aline Manera <alinefm@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- src/kimchi/model/storagevolumes.py | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/kimchi/model/storagevolumes.py b/src/kimchi/model/storagevolumes.py index ef8e684..4d0c231 100644 --- a/src/kimchi/model/storagevolumes.py +++ b/src/kimchi/model/storagevolumes.py @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ VOLUME_TYPE_MAP = {0: 'file', 3: 'network'} -DOWNLOAD_CHUNK_SIZE = 1048576 # 1 MiB +READ_CHUNK_SIZE = 1048576 # 1 MiB class StorageVolumesModel(object): @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ class StorageVolumesModel(object): size = 0 with open(file_path, 'wb') as f: while True: - data = upload_file.file.read(8192) + data = upload_file.file.read(READ_CHUNK_SIZE) if not data: break size += len(data) @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ class StorageVolumesModel(object): try: while True: - chunk_data = response.read(DOWNLOAD_CHUNK_SIZE) + chunk_data = response.read(READ_CHUNK_SIZE) if not chunk_data: break -- 1.9.3