[image-optimize] Very resource intensive on first run with lots of images

[danjames68]

I installed this plugin for the 'invitationtotuscany.com' website which has around 7000 images and it crashed the server. The server is a shared Linux account with Kualo, and has 3GB of physical memory.

[danjames68]

Currently the 'image-optimize' panel won't open and the admin has slowed right down.

[danjames68]

I guessed the plugin was choking on the number of images so I removed some folders via the "ignore paths" and now it's working fine. I think it needs some kind of pagination or chunking so that the script doesn't have to deal with so many images in one go.

[rhukster]

There is definitely some room for improvement to batch or even process-in-the-background to ensure this kind of large scale process is handled better. Grav is typically used for smaller sites, and therefore this issue hasn't come up much. It's defnitely on my radar to improve in an upcoming version however. As I did run into some similar issues in my large-scale tests of the plugin.

[danjames68]

I try to optimise my photos before I upload them but it's useful to run them through TinyPNG to get a little bit of extra compression. My site is very image heavy so it's a good bench test for the plugin. I'm guessing a structured way of doing what I'm doing manually, ie chunking the load by folders, with a dropdown to pick which folder to tackle.

No urgency, and I'm still loving GRAV and very appreciative of these paid plugins, they're working very well for me.

[danjames68]

Sorry, didn't mean to close.