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Asked: 2026-05-30T05:09:55+00:00

I am building a web application that allows the user to upload high res

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I am building a web application that allows the user to upload high res images (in the ballpark of 10mb). After its uploaded it creates a medium sized and thumbnail sized image of the upload. It seems it takes upwards of 100mb to of memory allocated to PHP just to resize to the medium image. I don’t have a lot of experience in this type of scalability, will the site easily crash? Will I need webservers with 16gb of memory just to handle the load of the resizing? Are there alternative? Any information would be greatly appreciated!

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could create a queue of images to be resized and ensure that only x number of images are being resized at any given time. x would depend on the amount of available memory.

    If you resize the images in real time as soon as they are uploaded, you are bound to run into a situation where more images are being resized than your memory can hold, which would cause a crash.

    Instead, as the image are uploaded, add them to a DB. Then have a PHP script which fetches x images from the DB, forks new processes for each of these images to rezize them. As and when a process report completion to the parent, the parent deletes the image’s entry from the queue and fetches another. Wash, rinse, repeat.

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