GD CPU/memory requirements

On May 3, 3:15 am, Good Man <h...@letsgo.com> wrote:
> "flamer die.s...@hotmail.com" <die.s...@hotmail.com> wrote innews:1178074625.604683.74900@y5g2000hsa.googlegr oups.com:
>
> > can anyone give me a rough idea of what sort of processing power GD/
> > php uses to create a thumbnail of a large photo (they range in size
> > from 50kb to 5mb).. the script only makes the thumbnail once then
> > saves it rather than creates it for each user then delete it,it would
> > make 20 thumbs for each page.. around a million photos in total.
>
> processing power would be fine on just about anything these days. you just
> want enough memory (on the system, and specified in php.ini) to load a 5MB
> source file and create 20 thumbnails of roughly 'x'KB into memory at the
> same time.

thanks for the replies, I have not used jfs before but I will have a
read about it and try it out. creating all the thumbnails first is an
option however there will probably be around 10k photos added each
week to the live site so the live server will have to do thumbnails on
the fly as well.

Flamer.