From: Steinar H. Gunderson Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:04:50 +0000 (+0200) Subject: FAQ update. X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?p=pr0n;a=commitdiff_plain;h=e3bd6c1544b723d945ad9ad5d8a08f3f1a1b0053;hp=4e1d791dcb8ce698ce3d38b43c131e0442dff2b6 FAQ update. --- diff --git a/files/faq.html b/files/faq.html index d56fc89..7d64100 100644 --- a/files/faq.html +++ b/files/faq.html @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@

pr0n FAQ

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Last updated April 12th, 2007

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Last updated April 13th, 2007

So, what is this pr0n thing anyway?

@@ -69,27 +69,28 @@ sharp thumbnails, no crappy nearest-neighbor scaling) of both thumbnails and images (most client-side scaling sucks quality-wise, unfortunately), an easy-to-use WebDAV-based upload - interface and in general good performance (being a set of persistent, - optimized Perl modules; I've seen it throw out over 300 hits a second, - but I won't guarantee it would withstand a Slashdot attack ;-) ). Also, - it has quite OK skinning capabilities, so it's able to adapt into - different designs quite easily.

+ interface, cache awareness and in general good performance (being a set + of persistent, optimized Perl modules; I've seen it throw out over 300 + hits a second even without the Squid in front, but I won't guarantee it + would withstand a Slashdot attack ;-) ). Also, it has quite OK skinning + capabilities, so it's able to adapt into different designs quite + easily.

What hardware/software does it run on?

pr0n currently runs on an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ with 4GB RAM and ordinary SATA disks. (The server does a lot of other stuff besides running pr0n, of course.) pr0n itself is a custom-made system by myself, tightly coupled - into Apache 2.0, Apache 2.2, mod_perl 2.0 and ImageMagick 6.x (as well as various other Perl modules), using PostgreSQL 8.1 as the back-end + href="http://www.postgresql.org/">PostgreSQL 8.2 as the back-end database for metadata et al. The base operating system is Debian etch (ie. “testing”).

+ href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian lenny (ie. “testing”).

The Perl modules aren't really that big -- we're talking about only - approx. 2200 lines of code (of which ~25% is the WebDAV part; I should + approx. 2500 lines of code (of which ~25% is the WebDAV part; I should really make that a bit cleaner once). Most of the real work is done by the software on which pr0n builds on.