Re: [Rabbit-proxy-users] Server Recommendations?

[Robert O. <ro...@kh...>]

Robert Denier wrote:

>1GB memory -- I'm guessing that would handle at least a couple dozen
>users transcoding images without any hard drive.
>Athlon 64 X2 (3800?)
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Depends on how many users you try to handle. I do not run any large
instance of rabbit myself...
Anyone who know how rabbit handle small/medium/large users feel
free to fill in, please.

Please note that for now you need a small cache for image conversion.
It uses the cache for the temporary files. So if you do _not_ allow any
cache at all, then you will not get any image conversion. 

>I'm not sure if 64 bits or dual core helps.  
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Rabbit uses threads so multiple cores will help.
I would guess that convert can handle 64 bits nicely, if
you compile it yourself or use a distribution for 64 bits.

>I suppose I could do some imageMagick conversions and time them.
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Also note that convert is not the fastest converter for all formats.
It does however handle all of the image formats I find on the web.

>Probably the greatest souce of delay is the fact that the image must
>arrive completely at the server before being covereted and then finally
>sent towards its destination.
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Perhaps, it is probably not hard to write a image handler that
uses convert with stdin/stdout. That might help a bit if all you want
is low latency (that handler would also not need a cache). Hmm, Ill
think Ill try to build such a filter and see how it goes...

Have fun
/robo