When importing images into a Gallery, the derivatives are not generated. When the Gallery is viewed for the first time after importing, the derivatives are built, causing the page to talk longer than expected to load.

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Hetta’s picture

Hetta commented

fix here: http://drupal.org/node/159847 - which I closed again, cos that's a long gone issue.

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dman commented

I actually prefer the on-demand version, because although it does slow down the first gallery view (big deal), it means that my image_import process itself doesn't timeout (actually a big deal!).
Temporarily slow images in a gallery I can deal with. They turn up next time you look.

Having to re-type my descriptions and things in a bulk import because it timed out halfway through is NOT fun!

... I'm using some imagecache watermark processes and giant sources, so processing time is a real problem on any server I've been working on.

Hetta’s picture

Hetta commented

Have you tried adding set_time_limit(0); to form.inc ?
That solved a lot of the troubles I had with a 10K+ vocabulary, in node updates ...

dman’s picture

dman commented

Yeah, it doesn't actually die ... much. But there's waiting for automated processes to run vs actually getting stuff done. If I can import a few galleries bada-bing, then background the browser before I go previewing the page ... or run a link-checker and walk away ... then my time is where it should be. Not waiting several mins, several times for a page to come back.
Ah, there's no perfect fix.
Put the whole import process into a cron queue and run a little auto-refreshing daemon process :)

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sun
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Priority: Critical » Normal
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Marking as duplicate of #159847: Derivative images not built when importing from outside /files