Could this be done by one of those grid applications like SETI at
home? Or would the bandwidth usage make it not worth the benefit? I
bet a lot of Wikipedia users would install a screensaver that did
image resizing for you.
Jim
On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:26 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote:
Jared Williams schreef:
Thought MediaWiki had a JobQueue ?
Can't it just dump the resizing of large images into that to be off
loaded?
The job queue works fine for doing lots of small things (do one small
thing per request, nobody notices the delay), but big things will just
delay some random guy's request by 10 seconds because MW is busy
resizing an image someone else uploaded. We should really do this in
background processes that don't interfere with Apache/PHP, but even
then
the load might be too heavy to take.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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