Batch adding extremely loads server

[zahno]

Hello,

I have installed coppermine on relatively poor server - P4/1600,512 MB RAM. Everything runs smoothly, but if I try batch uploading pictures, server starts swapping and manages to generate only few thumbnails. It takes 10-15 mins to make thumbnails of 100 jpegs and result looks like this:
http://zahno.name/images/err.jpg.

What could cause this behavior ? Is it too weak server (low amount of memory) or some wrong settings ? I use Imagemagick as image processor, could it be the problem ?

Could you please push me in right direction ?

Thanks, Zahno.

[Sami]

What is the size (dimension) of those images?
It's better to resize big image on your local pc , resizing big images put a huge load on server

[zahno]

Size is max up to 4MB, 10mbit original.
I'll try to resize pictures to 1200x1200 to see if it'd help

Thanks for quick reply.

[zahno]

SOLVED

problem was too slow server, which was causing timeouts. After upgrading to faster hardware (Core2 @ 2.33 GHz) everything works flawlessly.
BTW dualcore CPU is used to 100% and 350 jpegs of size of 1600x1200 pix are imported in 50 seconds. CPG could use good server.