A test has been done on my serveur ...
for unknown reason, mysql crashed, and bandwidth could go until 4mb/s !!!
After installing monitoring, my host has seen the SLIDESHOW function ecrased the server !!!
Config of the server
PIV 3go
512 Ram
80 GO
Bandwitdh : 10mb/s
As you can see ... a "good" server with a "good" bandwitdh
Also ...
I have about 2600 visitors / day and if too many people use in same time slideshow, the generated page could crash server.
I have some galleries with 300 or 400 pics ... and the generated page could load several hundred ko !!!
So ... I think this info could interest the dev team.
the slideshow does indeed some caching in advance, so there might be a slight rise in bandwidth use. You're recommended to disable all features that eat away to much bandwidth.
I can not replicate how the slideshow is suppossed to crash the mySQL table - it only reads (doesn't write).
Joachim
Yes it doesn't write : but it reads too many requests at the same time if several users use slideshow ! :)
And I disable it, indeed, to replace soon by my dhtml navigation, by using your ssi.php