@simonmichal so, the bad alloc seems to be happening only when the file is zip component, see [the logs here](https://asevcenc.web.cern.ch/asevcenc/xrd_timeout/bad_alloc/) for normal files, the process is stopped but seems to be for twice the value. to test a big file, i uploaded to our EOS storage and the benchmark for the transfer was an average of 107 MiB/s (at least 5 tries) Then, with `XRD_CPTIMEOUT=1` the downloaded portion of the file (that was kept locally) was consistently at 208 MiB (and never threw any error) and thanks a lot for `XRD_XRATETHRESHOLD` i will try it -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/issues/1439#issuecomment-828468833 ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-DEV list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-DEV&A=1