On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Jim Hu <jimhu(a)tamu.edu> wrote:
On Feb 22, 2008, at 8:26 AM, David Gerard wrote:
On 22/02/2008, Roan Kattouw
<roan.kattouw(a)home.nl> wrote:
Jim Hu schreef:
> 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.
Maybe people should just resize their images
before they upload them.
This was a donated image dump. You have grossly missed the point.
and not answered the question. The grid application could download
and return the images in bunches as tgz. Doesn't have to be one at a
time.
Or, we could have one dedicated server for long-running jobs.
Pre-generate the "usual" thumbnail sizes for each large image.
Maybe generate smaller thumbnails from larger ones, or multiple in one
go, so it won't have to load a large image 10 times for 10 thumbnails.
Not sure what to do for "unusual" sizes, though. Could be a DOS attac vector.
Magnus