On 01/09/12 03:48, Derric Atzrott wrote: > I wouldn't rely too much on the Squids. They do an excellent job, but > thinking > of those of us who use Mediawiki outside the foundation, I would much rather > see > an intelligent thumbnail generating and caching scheme that doesn't rely on > Squid being present.
We've been relying on Squid being present for years. Squid does a good job of LRU caching, it's fast and the size is ample. It's persistent, storing thumbnails on disk (some servers have flash). It would take a lot of work to do something as good as it in the backend. If we wanted a greater cold cache capacity, then we could add more image scalers. Video transcoding is an exception, but it needs to be handled separately anyway, because you can't run an hour-long transcoding job with no concurrency control, no error handling and no user feedback (progress bars etc.). -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
