No worries. I will have time to set something up in a couple of weeks.

The Wellcome uploads will be a last minute priority before Wikimania, my
focus will probably be on that.
On 18 Jul 2014 19:43, "Gergo Tisza" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Gergo Tisza <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> with bug 65691 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65691> fixed
>> (the last patch was deployed today), now might be a good time to test large
>> TIFF uploads again (the patch is limited to TIFF files for now). I was
>> thinking of the following schedule:
>>
>> - wait until Monday (no breaking the site on the weekends)
>> - launch an upload with large TIFF files (preferably the same one that
>> caused issues earlier, ie. Fae's NYPL maps project)
>> - make sure that the images are initially not categorized to avoid
>> someone triggering 200 new thumbnail requests in parallel (GWToolset could
>> add an emtpy template instead, and that template can be replaced with the
>> category later).
>> - initially use the minimum speed allowed by GWToolset (a single thread),
>> to make sure Special:NewFiles and co. will also not be the source of many
>> concurrent requests.
>>  - after a bunch of images have been uploaded, generate a gallery with 10
>> thumbnails and monitor imagescaler load and Swift traffic in the process.
>> Repeat with 20, 50 etc until we are satisfied that the scalers are
>> resilient to many concurrent requests for large files.
>> - if all works out, the upload project can continue with normal speed (20
>> threads or whatever), and we can also relax throttle limits on GWToolset a
>> bit.
>>
>> Does this sound reasonable? Fae, are you interested in doing this?
>>
>
> For the record, this is on hold because no one seems interested in doing
> mass TIFF uploads at the moment. Whenever someone plans doing that, ping me
> or anyone from the Multimedia team and we can get back to this.
>
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