# HG changeset patch
# User Michel Rozpendowski <mro@osimis.io>
# Date 1576852610 -3600
# Node ID bd1f308a5fd24f7741bceaaf9241cc2bc70800a9
# Parent  8aa416899db490ba8c69138679861f497100685d
Add ChunkedTransfers warning (issue 156)

diff -r 8aa416899db4 -r bd1f308a5fd2 Sphinx/source/plugins/dicomweb.rst
--- a/Sphinx/source/plugins/dicomweb.rst	Mon Dec 16 10:09:42 2019 +0100
+++ b/Sphinx/source/plugins/dicomweb.rst	Fri Dec 20 15:36:50 2019 +0100
@@ -203,7 +203,10 @@
   this option to ``true`` is the best choice to reduce memory
   consumption. However, it must be set to ``false`` if the remote
   DICOMweb server is Orthanc <= 1.5.6, as chunked transfer encoding is
-  only supported starting with Orthanc 1.5.8.
+  only supported starting with Orthanc 1.5.8. Beware setting ``ChunkedTransfers``
+  to ``true`` utilizes all CPU resources which results in extremely low throughput
+  as of version 1.0 of the DICOMweb plugin (see
+  `issue 156 <https://bitbucket.org/sjodogne/orthanc/issues/156/>`__ for status).
 
 You'll have to convert the JSON array into a JSON object to set these
 options::