This would allow us to trigger private file downloads without invoking Drupal or PHP, which would be a major performance win.

This would likely be done through integration with https://drupal.org/project/nginx_accel_redirect
Perusio (the module maintainer) will need to confirm first that the module is ready for this integration, and that works properly on both nginx and apache.

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Subscribing since I'm interested in how we could support this in File entity as well.

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Should this sort out the large file downloads timing out? When I try to download a 700mb from my server it doesn't time out. When I download the large file from within Drupal it times out at about 80mb...

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Yes. Timeouts happen because the files go through PHP.
This issue will allow the download to go straight through the web server.

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hmartens CreditAttribution: hmartens commented

Thanks Bojan. Is there a place where I can go look at what php settings needs to change to be able to download such big files?

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Time and memory limits probably, you will need to search for it (there is probably something in this queue)