On 31 August 2012 13:36, Ariel T. Glenn ariel@wikimedia.org wrote:
- We could generate and keep only certain sizes, tossing the rest.
- We could keep *nothing*, scaling all media as required.
- We could have a cron job that was clever about tossing thumbs every
day (not sure how easy it would be to be clever). 4. ?? In any of these cases, the squids will have copies of recently requested scaled media, so we won't be scaling the same file to the same size over and over in a short time frame.
To be obvious for #3:
* Do we know access times for these files? Can stuff be purged that hasn't been accessed in x time? What values of x would be good? * More generally: what's the tradeofff between generating a thumbnail afresh and keeping an old copy around until it's needed? Just how CPU-stressed is the thumbnailer?
- d.