Posted by Good Man on 05/02/07 15:15

"flamer die.spam@hotmail.com" <die.spam@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:1178074625.604683.74900@y5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com:

> can anyone give me a rough idea of what sort of processing power GD/
> php uses to create a thumbnail of a large photo (they range in size
> from 50kb to 5mb).. the script only makes the thumbnail once then
> saves it rather than creates it for each user then delete it,it would
> make 20 thumbs for each page.. around a million photos in total.

processing power would be fine on just about anything these days. you just
want enough memory (on the system, and specified in php.ini) to load a 5MB
source file and create 20 thumbnails of roughly 'x'KB into memory at the
same time.

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