https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23063
--- Comment #9 from Happy-melon <happy-me...@live.com> 2010-04-06 21:02:24 UTC --- (In reply to comment #7) > Derk, is that supposed to be a permanent fix? No; it's a temporary implementation of the proposed solution; which will presumably be replaced by a server-side implementation. > I might also openly wonder just how many animated GIFs there are that fall in > this category. If the thumbnailing only requires a couple of gigabytes ($100) > of server space, is it worth the fuss? The process consumes large amounts of RAM, not disk space. There would be precious little point in a rescaling process which produced an output file two hundred times the size of the input. Allowing a process to exist which is known to consume measurable quantities of a resource is a DoS vector: saving a page which requests the image above in every size between 1 and 5000px would not exceed the maximum page size, but could easily send an image scaler into swap trying to produce all the necessary thumbnails. > Is there a compelling reason to not restore the previous functioning until a > wall-to-wall technical solution is identified and implemented in one > fell-swoop? > 200 animated gifs between 20kb and 10MB (think category page) is not > something you want to throw at a browser. That. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
