Hi,

Erm, you should use thumbnails, for every photo uploaded you make a small thumbnail on the way. I recommend you not doing resizing on the fly when a person is viewing the page, because it's slow once you have a lot of pages/users. On the other side if you have a photo of 2mb, and you show this image on a <img> defining smaller width and height, the server send the 2mb size image to the client, and the browser will do the "scaling"... Take a look at projects around treating the same situation.

Imager and Image::Magick are great modules for doing all this kind of stuff (changing images and so).

I have seen other approaches instead of creating and managing the thumbnails, was using Mason caching the thumbnails, so the first time it takes a few ms. more but once you have a cached thumbnail, it's like having the file normally around on your filesystem. See here.

I can't tell you if this is normal, since I don't see your code, but normally you can do some optimisations... ;-)

I think that you should write clean code, since memory is cheap, and today there is no problem to have 512mb or 1024mb on your webserver. Using mod_perl: than more memory than better.

Regards,

|fire| at irc

In reply to Re: 2 Questions on Images and Mod_perl mem usage by fmerges
in thread 2 Questions on Images and Mod_perl mem usage by Anonymous Monk

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