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Hi Rich, You're right--for such a request, all of the variables within the dataset will be loaded into memory-resident arrays. I'm actually surprised that you saw this particular error; when I make very large requests via opendap, I get a message like: Error { code = 403; message = "Request too big=128191.439424 Mbytes, max=500.0"; }; I'm curious why you're not subsetting your requests--that's a core feature of opendap. Also, if you prefer to work with whole files, have you considered using the HTTP Bulk File Service [1]? Cheers, Christian [1] http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/thredds/v4.6/tds/reference/Services.html#HTTP Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: STZ-688845 Department: Support THREDDS Priority: Normal Status: Closed