On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 1:03 AM, Gilles Dubuc <gilles(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi ops,
Has the swift capacity been increased yet thanks to the new hardware? If
so, could we resume the discussion of "pre"generating specific thumbnail
sizes at upload time?
Media Viewer could benefit greatly from this performance-wise. As seen on
this graph, the launch to all wikis affected the average considerably,
since users started hitting a lot of images that didn't have Media
Viewer-sized thumbnails yet:
http://multimedia-metrics.wmflabs.org/dashboards/mmv#overall_network_perfor…
This looks pretty bad. Thanks for calling it out.
Thumbnailing improvements are still in the works on our end, and the idea
of not using swift anymore for those is definitely on
the team's radar
(we've started working on more modest thumbnailing improvements at this
point)
May I ask: what is the range of this radar? Radar signal declines in
quality as distance increases, and it is vulnerable to interference from
diverse factors, like atmospheric turbulence and birds.
Nobody likes sinking time, energy and hardware on an architecture that
doesn't work. Even when it's the right thing to do. I think appetite for
this work might grow if some there were some definite plans afoot for
moving us past it, to a setup that works.