[Labs-l] MediaWiki to LaTeX Compiler

[Dirk Hünniger]

On 22.12.2013 14:07, Mike Dupont wrote:
> Here is the code,
> http://sourceforge.net/p/wb2pdf/git/ci/master/tree/src/mediawiki2latex-server.hs
Well I wrote that code. It is much more easy for me to keep the images 
in memory in terms of code maintainability. I don't think its a memory 
leak since the amount of memory is roughly the amount needed by the 
plain image files. Furthermore the memory is also deallocated after each 
ruh. If I reduced memory usage I could just rent a virtual server for 8 
EUR a month, so running it on the labs would not be needed. The main 
idea why I am asking to run it on labs is that I don't want to buy a 
power efficient micro server for 600 EUR  and run it at home, which will 
run approximately 5 times a day and take one minute per run. If it 
becomes clear that labs won't accept a program that needs so much ram. I 
could still reopen the grant to ask for the money the micro server or 
the rent for a normal one. But I need a clear answer that the program 
can not be run on labs if it have to have a memory limit of 8 Gbyte.
Yours Dirk
> note: haskell often has resource problems, I am wondering if we can
> reduce its memory usage.
> I have done a lot of code optimizations in the past, one thing would
> be to move out the image processing into another batch utility and
> dont load them all into memory at once.
>
> mike
>
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> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 5:25 AM, Dirk Hünniger
> <dirk.hunniger at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I wrote a Mediawiki to LaTeX Compiler. It is part of the current version of
>> Ubuntu. A binary for Windows is also available. I also put up a private
>> server running it http://mediawiki2latex.mooo.com/ . Now I would like to
>> shut down my private server and run it on labs instead. Since it loads full
>> article into memory including high resolution images I would like it to
>> access 8 GByte of RAM. Most of the it should need much less but for a few
>> articles this is required. The Idea to run it on labs came up in this
>> discussion http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/LaTeX_Export .
>> There is also a project disciption page with more info
>> http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Benutzer:Dirk_Huenniger/wb2pdf . I already got
>> the ssh access to tools-login.wmflabs.org . Currently I don't really
>> understand the next steps I need to do. In particular since I need quite a
>> high ram limit and I need a job that runs permanently.
>> Yours Dirk
>>
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