Change to the way GAE counts MB?

[Joshua Smith]

I use GAE to host a PHP site, and there’s a file that’s been there about a year with no issues. It’s 32674472 bytes.

The file size limit, of course, is 32MB which is higher than that, assuming GAE defines a 1 MB = 1024 * 1024.

But I’m getting this error on deployment:

Details: [

  [

    {

      "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.ResourceInfo",

      "description": "File https://storage.googleapis.com/staging.kaoncom-hr.appspot.com/1ced1565690281184e66ebd4fa0a666264a28249 is too big (32674472 bytes). Max file size is 32000000 bytes.",

      "resourceName": "https://storage.googleapis.com/staging.kaoncom-hr.appspot.com/1ced1565690281184e66ebd4fa0a666264a28249",

      "resourceType": "file"

    }

  ]

]

Looks like google has changed to counting MB the way disk drive people count them.

-Joshua

[Katayoon (Cloud Platform Support)]

Based on App Engine Quotas documentation, no single static data file may be larger than 32MB. So, Instead of 32x1024x1024, it's just 32000000 bytes, which is less than your file size.

[Joshua Smith]

MB is short for megabyte, which is defined as 1,232,896 bytes, not 1,000,000 bytes.

Also, as I said, this file was fine until yesterday. Google arbitrarily lowered the limit and did not update the documentation or even bother to tell anyone.

On Jan 25, 2018, at 11:57 PM, 'Katayoon (Cloud Platform Support)' via Google App Engine <google-a...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Based on App Engine Quotas documentation, no single static data file may be larger than 32MB. So, Instead of 32x1024x1024, it's just 32000000 bytes, which is less than your file size.

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[Josh Moore]

This may be ultimately related to the difference between megabyte (MB) and mebibyte (MiB), though the core issue is that this was changed without notification, as you have said.  I'll check into it.

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