On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:18:48 -0600 Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> Dan Serban put forth on 1/10/2011 7:52 PM: > > On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:04:19 -0600 > > Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: > > > > [snip] > >> http://www.hardwarefreak.com/server-pics/ > > > > Which gallery system are you using? I quite like it. > > That's the result of Curator: > http://furius.ca/curator/ > > I've been using it for 7+ years. Debian dropped the package sometime > back, before Etch IIRC. Last time I installed it I grabbed it from > SourceForge. It's a python app so you need python and you'll need > the imagemagick tools. It's a nice looking interface, simple is what I like. > > Unfortunately its functions are written in a manner that psyco can't > optimize. It's plenty fast though if you're doing a directory > structure with only a couple hundred pic files or less. My server is > pretty old, 550MHz, and I've got a couple of dirs with thousands of > image files. It takes over 12 hours to process them. It processes > all subdirs under a dir. I've found no option to disable this. > Thus, be mindful of the way you setup your directory structures. > Even if nothing in a subdir has changed since the last run, curator > will still process all subdirs. It's pretty fast at doing so, but if > you have 100 subdirs with 100 files in each that's 10,000 image files > to be looked at, and bumps up the run time. > Indeed, I find that "simple" services always seem to end up eating a lot more resources than originally thought. > With any modern 2-3GHz x86 AMD/Intel CPU you prolly don't need to > worry about the speed of curator. I've never run it on a modern > chip, just my lowly, but uber cool, vintage Abit BP6 dual Celeron > 3...@550 server, which is the server in those photos. I have a > tendency to hang onto systems as long as they're still useful. At > one time it was my workstation/gaming rig. Those dual Celerons are > now idle 99%| of the time, and the machine is usually plenty fast for > any interactive command line or batch work I need to do. > I commend your spirit. I have collections of such hardware, but in my incessant need to have more power, and less power usage, half of this stuff gets retired. I wish I could find a good cause to give it to, but the linux/debian zealot in me refuses to just give it away to the dark side :/, if it'll run windows, I want you to give me money for it. Heh. I have a dual proc p3 1ghz motherboard. Pretty much worthless now, though it did a hell of a job running internal email and web/db services. > Of note, if you've been reading this thread, you'll notice I use this > script and ImageMagick's convert utility to resize my camera photos > before running curator on them, since I can now resize them almost > twice as fast, running 2 parallel convert processes. > I certainly have followed the thread and have learned that xargs allows you to parallel process commands. Something my 20 years of linux adventures haven't taught me until yesterday. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110111152102.7be6c...@ws82.int.tlc
