Memory chewed up on access to album

deljones

Here is my situation...

I use my NAS as a cloud server. I don't use any service that stores my pictures, like SugarSync, Google etc. I use my mobile phone and Zenphoto. I have an app on my phone that when I take a picture it is FTP'ed to an album that I created called "Mobile Uploads" in ZenPhoto. It is a password protected album but published. The system works well, SNAP and the picture is uploaded correctly. However when I go to look in the album via ZenPhoto the NAS goes crazy and is unusable for a while, in the system resources the memory is maxed out and the drive is swapping like crazy. If I look at this album on the front end for the first time it takes a very long time to see thumbnails/pictures.

The pictures take an age to cache. The pictures are about 2m in size. Even if I go into admin and look into that album the NAS memory spins out. Any other album is ok. These albums are not password protected and published and have been either ftp'ed using cyberduck or I have used the backend in ZenPhoto to upload pictures.

Any thoughts?

Deljones

sbillard

Is the Zenphoto site running on the NAS? Or is it just the file system for the albums?

When Zenphoto discovers an image it will cache certain versions of it like the thumbnail. That takes processing. If this processing is happening on the NAS maybe the NAS is not up to the task.