On 4/24/09 12:07 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Brion Vibber<br...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> Well, what about the 5 million other users browsing Special:Newimages? >> We don't want 50 simultaneous attempts to build that first >> über-thumbnail. :) > > You'd presumably use some kind of locking to stop multiple workers > from trying to render thumbnails of the same size in general > (über-thumbnails or not).
Best to make it explicit rather than presume -- currently we have no such locking for slow resizing requests. :) -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
