[ansel] Bad performance and a lot of GET requests

[Samuel Wolf]

2012/4/11 Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>
> Quoting Samuel Wolf <samuelwolf85 at googlemail.com>:
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>> I upload ~ 13000 pictures in a lot of sub galleries.
>>
>> One gallery has 115 pictures, I can see 30 per page.
>> All preview pictures (30) of the first site visible but my apache
>> access log show a lot more GET requests.
>>
>> 10.23.1.88 - - [11/Apr/2012:17:42:40 +0200] "GET
>> /horde4/ansel/img/mini.php?ajaxui=1&image=5558&t=Thumb&b=none
>> HTTP/1.1" 200 7098
>>
>> "https://example.com/horde4/ansel/view.php?ajaxui=1&gallery=1&view=Gallery&havesearch=0&slug"
>> "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like
>> Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/17.0.963.79 Chrome/17.0.963.79
>> Safari/535.11"
>
>
> This request is generating a "mini" preview icon - the really tiny (50x50?)
> previews. From a gallery page, this could be coming from a number of places;
> Off the top of my head - The geotag widget, the gallery tree widget, or the
> similar images widget.

You're right, it is the gallery tree widget.
Is there a way to disable this complete?

>
>> But why?
>
>
> How else would the browser request an image?
>
>
>> $conf['images']['params']['vfsroot'] = '[...]/horde_data';
>> $conf['images']['type'] = 'File';
>> $conf['vfs']['src'] = 'sendfile';
>
>
> If your server does, indeed, support sendfile, you will still see the above
> request - as the sendfile is handled in the image generation script
> (mini.php). If you want to completely bypass PHP processing for these image
> requests, use a file-based VFS and the 'vfs-direct' option.
>
> Also, keep in mind that the first time an image is displayed, it's possible
> the server needs to generate the preview image, which can lead to slow
> performance. Once the view is generated, it is cached in the VFS.

I know that, but the gallery tree widget pictures are not cached, right?

Samuel

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