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Devbizz
Devbizz

Reputation: 81

ckfinder thumbnails slow

We are using the paid version of CKFinder. When we open the pop-up we see our complete structured folder with all images, but it takes ages to load.

This is due too CKFinder and not our server. If I would have coded my own "finder" it would almost load images instantly, because the deadline I couldnt code it myself and thus we decided to use CKFinder but as said, it is horribly slow.

Is there any way to speed up the process so we dont have to wait seconds every single time we go to a new folder? some folders take almost 10 seconds to load, and yes... there are 50+ images in the folder but as said. I made a small script that does the same as CKFinder and it loads everything almost instantly. But since we paid for CKfinder we want to use this, but reduce the load times.

As said, if I would have coded my own finder there would almost be no delay compared to CKFinder.

I hope someone knows how to speed up CKfinder :)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 899

Answers (1)

zaak
zaak

Reputation: 745

There is a small problem in your config.php that may make CKFinder slow: the default backend is a remote one (FTP), and it's used in the privateDir section as a backend to store CKFinder private files (including generated thumbnails). Fetching data from FTP is much slower in comparison with the local file system, and this may cause delays. The way to solve this is creating an additional backend in the local file system and use it as a storage for private data in the privateDir section.

Example:

$config['privateDir'] = array(
    'backend' => 'ckfinder_private_data', // Use the local file system backend.
    'tags'   => '.ckfinder/tags',
    'logs'   => '.ckfinder/logs',
    'cache'  => '.ckfinder/cache',
    'thumbs' => '.ckfinder/cache/thumbs',
);

$config['backends'][] = array(
    'name'    => 'ckfinder_private_data',
    'adapter' => 'local',
    'root'    => '/path/to/writable/dir/'
);

Additionally, you may also try lowering thumbnailDelay in the CKFinder JavaScript client.

Upvotes: 2

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