Hi, I run gimp and mod_perl on a production server and trigger longer jobs using the 'at' command so as not to keep users hanging around for a result. Some of the runs can generate upwards of 1,000 or so images, so the connections were timing out long before the job ever ended.
For shorter jobs, gimp start-up time can be significantly reduced - by upwards of 8 seconds on my laptop - by giving the apache process it's own gimp configuration directory in it's home directory. On my debian systems the apache process runs as user 'www-data' and it's home directory is /var/www. I copy a '.gimp-2.2' directory and then set the permissions up: cp ~/.gimp-2.2 /var/www chown -R www-data.www-data /var/www/.gimp-2.2 I have a tarball of a simple conf directory which I use to do the same thing on production servers, but the above is simple and effective and I was very chuffed when I figured it out! It's not as good as a keeping persistent connections going, but gives instant results for little work :) Iain P.S. I'll upgrade to gimp-2.2 soon, honest! Tom Rathborne wrote: > On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 04:33:28PM -0400, Vio wrote: >> You're right. Keeping a running Gimp daemon in memory would most >> certainly speed things up (for subsequent calls) > > This worked very well with gimp-perl and mod_perl 10 years ago. > It was relatively easy to establish a persistent connection from > mod_perl to the gimp-perl server. Just as in database connections, > each Apache child maintained a socket connection to gimp-perl. > > It's just a matter of sorting out the socket permissions, as you have > learned. For security purposes, I ran gimp as a different user, but > granted permissions on the socket to www-data, and allowed gimp to > write to a specific directory in the document root to enable caching > of output images. > > The performance was amazing, even 10 years ago. > > I'm not sure if gimp-python has a similar server mode, but if it does, > I'm sure that mod_python could cache the connections for similar > performance levels. > > Cheers, > > Tom > _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
