On Apr 9, 2014 10:16 PM, "James Forrester" <jforres...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > On 9 April 2014 18:08, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Of course this thread isnt supposed to be about if its a good idea to > > increase the size, so far everyone is agreement on that front. The issue > > is > > whether doing so would kill swift due to a large increase in object count > > (or some other performance concern(?)) as has appearantly been suggested. > > > > Im not sure it would actually increase the object count that much, if the > > new size chosen was a multiple of the old (as was suggested on wikipedia) > > since that size will already probably be rendered for retina display. Also > > we added the whole retina display srcset feature without the world > > exploding, and i think that was orders of magnitude bigger change than this > > would be. Ill admit im not actually familar with what the performance > > issues are, and may have just said something totally irrelavent. > > > > I can't see how enabling a size that's already enabled in production on a > further wiki will significantly increase the object count, but removing all > sizes except one will definitely reduce it. :-) > > J.
Actually it wont because things only ever get deleted when somebody uploads a new version, deletes a file, or ?action=purge. Otherwise we keep thumbs forever. --bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
