Hi,
I help currently someone wanting to build his own ZIM parser.
I know this is not necessary... but he wants to do it and I find this is interesting to have someone trying to do that.
I have remarked that on the wiki nothing is written about the compression:
* How do we know if a cluster is compressed or not ?
* What are the possible value (for different compression methods) ?
Regards
Emmanuel
Hello again.
Two Kiwix issues we see with the Hebrew ZIM (available at
http://benyehuda.org/zim/hewiki_sep2009.zim) --
1. There is no caption for images when hovering with the mouse over them.
2. There is no licensing information for images -- this seems to us to be
violating the GFDL license, and is therefore a problem in distributing ZIM
files.
(I'll open a Bugzilla issue for each if they are acknowledged as issues.)
We note that all this seems to be working fine in the Arabic ZIM you guys
prepared some time ago. Perhaps we're missing something? Perhaps you'd be
willing to try to create a Hebrew Wikipedia ZIM for us, just to see if it's
something in our process or something in the handling of Hebrew?
Many thanks in advance,
Asaf Bartov
Wikimedia Israel
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Asaf Bartov <asaf(a)forum2.org>
Hello, everyone.
While trying to add images to our Hebrew Wikipedia ZIM file, we ran into
memory-consumption problems with the Kiwix mirroring scripts.
Despite using a quad-core Linux machine with 4GB of physical memory, both *
listAllImages.pl* and *mirrorMediawikiPages.pl* ran for a very long time but
eventually crashed the perl process with an *out of memory* error, and
indeed, while running, they consumed ever more memory, until they actually
consumed the entire physical memory.
Emmanuel said this shouldn't happen, but it does, and we'd like your advice
on whether there's any point in attempting this again with a larger machine
(perhaps an Amazon EC2 machine with more physical memory and faster CPUs) or
whether we should try to find the bug in the scripts.
Thanks in advance,
Asaf Bartov
Wikimedia Israel
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Asaf Bartov <asaf(a)forum2.org>
Hey,
I ported OpenZIM and it's dependencies to OpenWrt (not committed yet) -
mainly, to get it running on the embedded device "Ben NanoNote" of
qi-hardware.
Unfortunately OpenZIM seems to consume an amount of memory the Ben isn't
able to serve (it has 32MB of RAM).
Even with a really minimalistic system (lightweight kernelconfig +
busybox-based rootfs, having just a shell) and accessing the zimreader
via a webbrowser running on another machine, OpenZIM is getting killed
by the kernels out-of-memory killer after a few clicks.
Is there a way of configuring / adjusting the zimreader to reduce memory
consumption to get it running smoothly and stable on device such the ben
NanoNote?
Thanks a lot in advance - great work!
Have a nice weekend,
mirko
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