On 31 August 2012 13:36, Ariel T. Glenn <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. We could generate and keep only certain sizes, tossing the rest. > 2. We could keep *nothing*, scaling all media as required. > 3. 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. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
