On 4/24/09 12:07 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Brion Vibberbrion@wikimedia.org wrote:
Well, what about the 5 million other users browsing Special:Newimages? We don't want 50 simultaneous attempts to build that first über-thumbnail. :)
You'd presumably use some kind of locking to stop multiple workers from trying to render thumbnails of the same size in general (über-thumbnails or not).
Best to make it explicit rather than presume -- currently we have no such locking for slow resizing requests. :)
-- brion