Daniel Magliola
2013-Sep-19 16:51 UTC
Performance problem generating URL for thousands of images, due to hitting HDD for each one
Hi, I have a model where I''m using Carrierwave to let users upload their avatars. I have one version for the avatar, cropped to a square called "cropped". class User mount_uploader :avatar, AvatarUploader end class AvatarUploader < ImageUploader version :cropped do process :crop end end In one of my pages, where I''m listing a few thousand users, each with their avatar, the call to generate the URL for these images is taking a long time. The problem seems to be that just by accessing to the model attribute that has the uploader mounted, Carrierwave seems to be hitting the disk to either read the file, check that it exists, or something. In other words, calling: user.avatar user.avatar.cropped user.avatar.present? user.avatar.anything_really All of these hit the HDD. In the worst case I found, for one of our clients that have a massive amount of data, the page renders in 10 seconds my dev machine, and 30 seconds on the server. This page render implies about 1200 calls to "user.avatar.cropped". The difference seems to be due to SSD vs HDD (or maybe overhead due to VM''s, not sure). OS Disk Caching does kick in, though, since rendering the same page for a second time in the server takes 10 seconds, presumably since disk hits are cached. If I generate the URL "manually", instead of using CarrierWave, it''s back down to 10 seconds in all machines, so it''s definitely Carrierwave that''s causing the slowdown. It seems like hitting the HDD shouldn''t be necessary to generate the path. Is there any way to avoid this, or to work around this problem? (NOTE: I know 10 seconds is atrocious for a page anyway, we''re doing stuff to solve this, but site-wide, we have lots of pages that show tons of avatars, and we''re getting a slowdown due to these HDD hits, so we''d like to improve them, without having to manually generate the URLs, since the abstraction Carrierwave provides is *awesome*) Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated. Thank you! Daniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/916b13de-3ffd-4f93-aede-0f62a9a4fee1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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