I'm thinking about this condition. Large community and many users upload their avatar. I see that all avatars are uploaded into the same folder.
What will happens with 100.000 ... 500.000.... 1.000.000 users?
I suppose that only a single folder with 500.000 images could be a big problem. Maybe also 2000 files into a single folder can slow very down the site.
Am I right?
Any solution to split folder so that no more that 1000 images for every folder for example can be stored then another new folder is created and so on...
Well there's also the thumbnail image so for avatars it's always x2. This assumes say all 100,000 users upload an avatar that'd mean 200,000 images. No this shouldn't cause any sort of performance issue. It should only be a matter of storage if for whatever reason your server runs out of storage space for them all. No, there's no way to split them up. CB doesn't do lookups or parsing of this folder as it keeps track of their avatar using the avatar field stored to _comprofiler and always uses it in its paths. Basically there's nothing to be worried about.
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