I started modifying the Photo product to use ExtFile/Image since my memory was getting eaten by it. I ran into a few problems, though I mostly had it working. It turned out, however, that my memory was being eaten because the different photo sizes are stored as *strings*, not as Zope Image objects. Each string was being loaded in full into memory before being served. That eats memory fast. I ended up modifying it to store the different displays as Zope Image objects and my memory problem vanished (since Zope loads Images in pieces). I also managed to fix another bug with regard to the dimensions getting "randomly" messed up. I haven't had time to make any official releases or patches available, but I'll be glad to send them to you if you want to use it even without external file storage. Perhaps I'll continue changing Photo to work with ExtFile/Image someday, but don't hold your breath. _______________________ Ron Bickers Logic Etc, Inc.
-----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Peter Bengtsson Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 11:58 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] FS Photo product
No this is not an announcment. Rather the opposite. I believe I've heard about a version of the Photo product that saves the images on the filesystem. Am I right, is there such a product? Where?
My current problem is that my Photos in zope take are so big that I have problems copying folders and can with a little pain back it all up. I bet there are advantages with storing the big binary content on the Linux instead of the ZODB.