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I have a site built in Drupal 7.23, which is supposed to handle large files uploads to it.

I have a node form with 5 File upload fields which is supposed to take 200MB files for each.

What should be the Apache server adjustments that i need to taken in favour of making the upload process seamlessly?

Also i have Video module with FFMPEG configured to convert on cron. Someday I got message form server support team that my FFMPEG is taking 100% CPU.

Also i got some MySQL errors, like Lock TimeOut etc. what to do ?

Please let me know an optimal settings for these kind of server which runs Drupal.

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  • taking 100% CPU - are you in shared hosting ?
    – Bala
    Commented Dec 12, 2013 at 5:23
  • @Bala nop i am in VPS ~2GB i think
    – niksmac
    Commented Dec 12, 2013 at 5:32
  • I think you can do it through drupal.org/project/jupload , using this method (not sure) you can upload the files without issue in your server, better see this page( drupal.org/node/1748456 ) , it not mentioned but it processed through ftp so I think it can do the job without affecting the server.
    – Bala
    Commented Dec 12, 2013 at 8:59
  • @Bala but that will ruin my UI..
    – niksmac
    Commented Dec 12, 2013 at 9:01
  • It looks like UI integration and I'm not sure, better give a try.
    – Bala
    Commented Dec 12, 2013 at 9:02

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It is normal for the CPU usage to be at 100% when FFMPEG runs. Video compression is a computationally difficult task.

See this related question. If you have a two core VPS then you could make sure that FFMPEG only uses one core and thus always leaves at least one core for Apache/PHP/MySQL.

I created a similar site and it generally worked but it certainly had the occasional errors. It was a 4-core VPS and when transcoding all four cores were often at 100%. If I were to design the site again I think I would use a video transcoding service such as Amazon's Elastic Transcoder. Making sure FFMPEG would recognize all the different file encodings especially MP4 was quite a pain.

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You may try File Resumable Upload:

File Resumable Upload aka file_resup adds large files multiple and resumable upload to the File and Image field widgets.

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I think you can do it with Remote File Source module without affecting locally.

Remote File Source allows you to add a file from a remote server to a filefield without transferring it locally.

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  • I want to add files to the server and convert it into various format so that i can play it in various browsers. Also that is the requirement.
    – niksmac
    Commented Dec 16, 2013 at 17:03

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