Build 2.02 Beta 1: Upload Error Reporting

Just a follow-up post on the image resizing errors issue for anyone following.

It turns out that in this case the host had some additional memory limits that weren't displayed by CMSB. We added a new line to the next release under Admin > General to show these. It's called "Server Resource Limits".

Also, images are highly compressed and thumbnailing them requires decompressing them, which takes a lot of memory.

We made a test script and it turns out a 2meg image takes approx 40megs of memory to open it for thumbnailing (which was more memory than this host supports).

We haven't found a way to detect when we hit the memory limit in cases like this, the host just kills the CMSB process and you get an error.

So the work-arounds for now if you have a host with a lower memory limit are:

- Ask your host to increase your memory limit
- Limit the max upload size to 1 meg
- Turn off all thumbnailing (which requires loading images)
- Switch hosts

Hope that helps! Let me know if anyone has any other questions about this.