On 22/02/2008, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
Well, I'm not clear on exactly what the issue is with resizing. Is it merely that it takes a minute per image? Or does it also take 45 GB of RAM? If the former, we could of course just toss a couple of extra servers at the problem. If the latter, not so easy. Domas' "No." makes me think something closer to the latter, but I really don't know.
It should be possible to thumbnail a PNG completely from the image stream, using minimal memory (at the expense of speed).
Imagemagick is a tool that is a jack of all trades and best solution for none. If the problem is with using Imagemagick to do it, use something else.
- d.