Crash server, restart... a lot of problem

[bestorino]

Dear Staff of Coppermine Photo Gallery,

   For first, congratulations for your web gallery, it's very usefull and with a lot of stuffs that we need to show our photos.
Coppermine is the best that internet can offer, thanks' a lot!

I'm writing to you to explain our problem.

The hosting company where we have our website wrote that the resize file in the showthumb.php page cause a lot of time the crash of the server but also use the 50% of the server.
Could be possible? Do you also know this problem?
I tried your gallery in local, in my computer (normal one, not like server) and it was working.
Right now we have about 5000 photos in the gallery, but I dont' think that this is the problem

(we are a student association that organize trips... so we need to upload a lot of image, something like 4000 photos per year... do u suggest us something for that?)

I was uploading in a album some (ok maybe too much) images uploaded before via FTP.
Is it possible to disable the thumbnail in the upload page?
Can I do something to solve the problem?



Thank's a lot



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 Ivan Difrancesco  
 Vice President BEST Turin

 BESTs email: ivan.difrancesco@best.eu.org
 http://www.best.eu.org/turin
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[Joachim Müller]

showtumb is used during the batch-add process. Your webhost is basically right: the batch-add process can be very resources-consuming and can put high load on the server. However, the process should not be able to bring the server down (your webhost may be running a webserver that is not configured properly); of course this is nothing you could possibly fix, so the only workarounds are:

• batch-add less pics in one go!
  
• resize the pics on your client before ftp-uploading (see tutorial Batch-resizing pics)
  
• if you're currently using ImageMagick, switch to GD (ImageMagick starts simultaneous processes for each pic added, GD resizes one after the other)

Joachim