[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>:
>
>> 2012/4/11 Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>>>
>>>
>>> Quoting Samuel Wolf <samuelwolf85 at googlemail.com>:
>>>
>>>> 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?
>
>
> Edit ansel/config/styles.php

Is there an other way than comment out "'widgets' => $widgets," ?
I create a styles.local.php but the code must be wrong:
<?php
$widgets['Actions']['OtherGalleries'] = 'no';
$widgets['Actions']['Geotag'] = 'no';
$widgets['Actions']['Links'] = 'no';


Samuel


>
>
>>>
>>>> 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?
>
>
> Sure they are. Every image generated by Ansel is cached in the VFS. It's
> cached by a hash of a combination of things like image size, backgroud
> color, style so that anywhere the same image parameters are needed, the same
> image is used out of the VFS, regardless of where the image is displayed in
> the UI.
>
>
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> mike
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