Why does Zenphoto make my server crash while processing images?
If you’re running a web server on a VPS or other resource-limited environment, then you might not have enough memory available to the server to process very large images. You can use the following table as a guideline to see how much memory you need available to process images of different sizes: • VGA Image, 640 x 480 pixels => needs ~4.1 MB Memory • SVGA Image, 800 x 600 pixels => needs ~4.8 MB Memory • 1 MP Image, 1024 x 798 pixels => needs ~6.3 MB Memory • 2 MP Image, 1600 x 1200 pixels => needs ~11.7 MB Memory • 6 MP Image, 2816 x 2112 pixels => needs ~22.6 MB Memory • 8.2 MP Image, 3571 x 2302 pixels => needs ~41.7 MB Memory As you can see, the 8.2-Megapixel 3571×2302 image requires a very large amount of memory to process, and that’s simply because of the number of pixels. It doesn’t matter if the image is only 2 or 3 megabytes when compressed in JPEG form, or what colors the image contains or anything– it’s just how big it is, because all of those pixels have to have a place i
