How to force download of big files without using too much memory?

Question

I\'m trying to serve large zip files to users. When there are 2 concurrent connections, the server runs out of memory (RAM). I increased the amount of memory from 300MB to 4GB (

Answer 1

Symlink the big file to your document root (assuming its not an authorized only file), then let Apache handle it. (That way you can accept byte ranges as well)