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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