Friction

Pain point · Performance · Causes churn

Thumbnail generation exhausts memory and crashes the server

1 source thread · first seen 2023-11

Summary

Viewing a collection of large photos in the dashboard triggers many concurrent thumbnail resizes that use far more memory than the image sizes and get the process OOM-killed.

Affects
teams storing high resolution photos

Evidence

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“The process uses a lot of memory (over 1.5GB) when resizing thumbnails and eventually is OOM-Killed”

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