Yes, the disc space issue did occur whilst the peeron image regeneration was running.
I'm not familiar with all the history of why Steve Bliss and Dan Boger configured it this way, but one of the last steps in the parts update process that I inherited is to run a script that regenerates the entire parts library (using ldglite) in a hard-coded list of colours (not including 16) for the peeron partsref resource. The output of this is produced on the www.peeron.com server but is synchronised to media.peeron.com (which is a different server) for use by peeron.
This is also the cause of the mis-matched images sizes at the patterned parts summary, which you have question several times in the past.
full size
scaled to 100px wide
scaled to 16px wide (thumbnail)
However, Orion and I have been talking elsewhere about generating color 16 only LDView images at http://www.ldraw.org/library/official/images - for use by LDraw. That's high on my list for when I get back.
I'm not familiar with all the history of why Steve Bliss and Dan Boger configured it this way, but one of the last steps in the parts update process that I inherited is to run a script that regenerates the entire parts library (using ldglite) in a hard-coded list of colours (not including 16) for the peeron partsref resource. The output of this is produced on the www.peeron.com server but is synchronised to media.peeron.com (which is a different server) for use by peeron.
This is also the cause of the mis-matched images sizes at the patterned parts summary, which you have question several times in the past.
Steffen Wrote:(1) shall we get (rid) of the duplicates?That's not really our choice. It's really up to peeron (i.e. Dan Boger) how he wants to manage the generation and hosting of the images for peeron.
Steffen Wrote:(2) can the images for 2012-01 be completed, please?Yes, but not this week. I am about to go on holiday for a week, and don't want to kick off a long-running script that might disable the sever whilst I am away.
Steffen Wrote:(3) what's the official URL for them?I think Dan would prefer them to be served-up from http://media.peeron.com/ldraw/images/ - and that seems to serve them a lot faster than the www.ldraw.org location e.g.
full size
scaled to 100px wide
scaled to 16px wide (thumbnail)
Steffen Wrote:(4) shall we move the images to a different server?They are already - media.peeron.com is a different server.
Steffen Wrote:(5) shall the image generation process be put onto a different machine than the web server for them?That's not really our call - we get the processor cycles and disc space for free.
However, Orion and I have been talking elsewhere about generating color 16 only LDView images at http://www.ldraw.org/library/official/images - for use by LDraw. That's high on my list for when I get back.
Chris (LDraw Parts Library Admin)