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What must be done to make codeigniter force_download to download large files?

Hi Experts!

I'm facing problems when trying to download a 267Mb file by using Codeigniter's force_download.

When downloading smaller files, no problems.

After a long time, the name of the file to be downloaded appears but without the size and after download
it the file has 0KB.

After download:

The code I used:

      $data = file_get_contents(base_url('arquivos/cesans/e_pub/' . $arquivo));
       force_download($arquivo, $data);

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Thanks in advance!

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Dave Baldwin

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Eduardo Fuerte

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Hello Dave

I did it before...
The directive in PHP.ini I changed was:

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Resource Limits ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (128MB)
; http://php.net/memory-limit
memory_limit = 512M

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It was 128M before and causes a memory error.
Maybe it's still insuficient, I'm going to increase it to 1024M

Am I in the right way? Another directive must be changed too?

The file has 267M.

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Dave Baldwin

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Eduardo Fuerte

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After tests 1024M make it run OK!

Eduardo Fuerte

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In fact is an eBook ! The others are much smaller treating agro subjects...but this is about the 100 better experimental receipts developed in our experimental kitchen...rsrsrs

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Loganathan Natarajan

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Eduardo Fuerte

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Thanks for the assistance!