Ariel T. Glenn wrote: > So it's time to have this discussion again. At least, I think we're > having it again, though I could not find previous threads on this list > about the subject. > > In short, scaled media is currently generated on the fly for any size > and for any user. The resulting files are kept around forever or until > we run perilously short of space, at which point we make some guesses > about what we can toss and then do a mass purge. Last time we did so, we > had the rotation bug going at the same time, which made for a real fine > mess. > > A little bit of crunching shows me that we have about 6 million images > in use on the projects, and yet we manage to have around 130 million > thumbnails. Just for fun I checked to see how many thumbs each image > has, what sizes we are looking at, etc. Here's the results.
Only really tangentially related, but I remember thinking when reading this thread: are there any pages (on wikitech.wikimedia.org or elsewhere) that document Wikimedia's current media infrastructure? It's always been a bit of a mystery to me. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
