https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16451
Summary: GIF scaling limit should be applied to animated GIFs
only
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
URL: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Neue_Gedichte
_(Heine_1852)
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Images
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Due to recurring problems with scaling of large animated GIFs taking down the
image scaling servers, we put in a hack to prevent server-side scaling of very
large, then *all* animated GIFs.
Unfortunately this currently applies to *all* GIFs, which can be very nasty for
cases like this page:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Neue_Gedichte_(Heine_1852)
This category on Commons has a gallery with a large number of scanned pages...
uploaded as large GIFs... which are not being thumbnailed... so they're all
being loaded inline...
My Firefox process was using 2.31GB of real memory after loading the page. Not
so bad when you've got a loaded 4-gig box, but pretty crappy if you're on a
more typical machine which will keel over and die.
We need to distinguish between animated and non-animated GIFs so still images
can continue to be scaled cleanly.
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