aC forum: No thumbnail on images over 500k

Post #4 by Ilija Studen

Ilija Studen — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:58:55 CDT

I'm glad to hear that it works well for you. If you need anything else, you know where you can find us :)

Post #3 by Ben

Ben — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:18:13 CDT

Thanks for the info and for responding so quickly, Ilija! I'm on a very powerful VPS, so memory usage is not a concern or restriction for me. I can appreciate you building in this limitation though, especially for shared hosting environments. I added RESIZE_SMALLER_THAN to my config file and it now resizes large images perfectly.

Post #2 by Ilija Studen

Ilija Studen — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:58:23 CDT

Hi Ben,

Yes, activeCollab does not resize files larger than 500kb (to avoid memory problems) and there is a configuration option to change that. Check this article for details.

Note that PNG-s can use significantly more memory when GD is resizing them than other file types. This can use a lot of memory, but the good thing is that such amount of memory is needed only once, when thumbnail is initially created (it's cached for future uses).

Post #1 by Ben

Ben — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:41:49 CDT

When I upload files in the Files section of a project, I get thumbnails for images that are below 500k, but it only shows the sunset icon for larger images that are uploaded. To be specific, a thumbnail was generated for a PNG that is 509k but not for a PNG that is 557k. No error messages are displayed and I suspect that aC has a rule somewhere that determines whether a thumbnail should be generated or not (for larger images). Is there a way to disable this so I can get thumbs for every image, regardless of size?

On a somewhat related not, I had an issue with exceeding memory limits yesterday when uploading large files, although this was easily cleared up by increasing the limit from 64M to 128M.

Thanks for you help and input.