Are the resized images needed *immediately*? Could you set up a seperate process to downsize the images one at a time, and let Apache/PHP/whomever just add the images to the queue? That way, the requests get processed much faster and you're also guaranteed not to blow the server's resources with too many concurrent requests all downsizing images at the same time.
Issac Sam Carleton wrote: > I am working on a image kiosk system. One of the things that needs to > happen is downsizing images. Initially this down sizing was happening > in the GUI part of the program. I have now modified things so that it > is done real time by the PHP code. The problem is that the downsizing > is taking much longer in PHP then it did in the GUI (C#). I am > thumbnail images (up to 16MB source images) and creating web page > style images ( 900x600). > > I am looking for options to speed things up. My first thought is to > keep it simple and write a CGI program in C++ (a language I know and > love), but I am a little concerned about the startup cost of calling > CGI. When there are up to 100 different browsers hitting the server, > will there be any big speed benefits to developing an apache module > rather then CGI? I do get the impression that there is quite a bit of > framework code to write in doing apache modules, so I am also thinking > that I might want to look at FastCGI. > > What is the best approach? Oh, is FastCGI just an apache thing or > will FastCGI programs work with other servers? > > Sam
