Jun
29Missing Images
Tags : To Do Posted in: Tech Talk
I’ve worked out I’m missing 5000 screen shots.
I’m not sure what to do for the best.
I’m not polling at all at the moment, I haven’t been since the start of the year.
I’m waiting to get my updater program more resource friendly before I add it.
So theres no way some of these files will ever get updated.
My options are :-
A) To get the files offline via a little program I could knock up, but this may mean some data is out-of-date, with a new image
B) I could send my updater 5000 transactional emails, that the way it works at the moment, however the updater program only runs at night and does 100 hour.
However this would take 50 days, not including transactional emails.
I guess thinking about it I’ve answered my own question, maybe I’m best off improving my program making it a lot more resource friendly and to turn on polling, but make the 5000 first.
Question is how to make it faster and more resource friendly.
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by JM
Could you simply display images using a hyperlink? Have you saved the link from the PAD file into your DB.
Alternatively, if you repolled and captured the image link without downloading the image, would this speed up the polling process?
Thats a good idea.
I do have that value in my database.
I can certainly use it until I get the image from polling.
Ah… I’d forgotten about your idea.
However, I did think at the time, I might be better off improving my update program.
Anyway I’d just like to announce an update in this problem.
I’ve been working on optimizing the update program and as a result I have had to add an extra numeric field to the database which will greatly improve the most cpu hungry query it runs. The query which searches on pad url.
To populate this field I have had to ask my ISP to run a small Fix program to create this data. Unfortunately its rather slow.
Once this data is in place, I’ll be able to look at adding polling to the end of the program.
Hopefully at this point my ISP will be happy for the program to run during the day and the missing image problem will eventually disappear.