Title: Feature request: add some progress indicator
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Feature request: add some progress indicator

 *  [Marcelo Pedra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kent-brockman/)
 * (@kent-brockman)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-add-some-progress-indicator/)
 * Hi! I love your plugin, but when it comes to bulk resize lots and lots of images,
   it would be great if some indication of progress were shown. No matter if it’s
   in the form of % complete, or if it’s 67/100. Some possible mark to infer how
   much time could the entire process take, wold be lovely.
    Hope you can consider
   this and add it to the plugin.
 * Big Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/imsanity/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/imsanity/)

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 *  [Jason](https://wordpress.org/support/users/verysimple/)
 * (@verysimple)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-add-some-progress-indicator/#post-5560666)
 * Thanks for the feature request, I’ll look into doing that.
 * The bulk update feature is something that I never really intended to build but
   so many people requested it I put it in there. It is not really the most elegant
   interface though.
 *  Thread Starter [Marcelo Pedra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kent-brockman/)
 * (@kent-brockman)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-add-some-progress-indicator/#post-5560667)
 * Maybe it’s not that elegant, but it’s the most reliable plugin doing this task.
   A progress indicator will add for usability and understanding how the process
   is going.
 * Also, you maybe could want to hardcode a “micro sleep” evaluator, because crowded
   servers may skyrocket cpu load when resizing lots of images. So, if you detect
   that resizing an image took more than, let’s say, 6 seconds, the plugin activity
   could be harming the cpu load, thus inserting a small pause between further image
   processing could help to alleviate the load in the server. Something as simple
   as
    `if($time_taken>6000){sleep(1);}`
 *  [Jason](https://wordpress.org/support/users/verysimple/)
 * (@verysimple)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-add-some-progress-indicator/#post-5560684)
 * I just added a counter in the results in version 2.3.1 if you want to check it
   out. it just displays the counter in the results but it does the trick.
 * putting in a “nice” CPU type of setting i’ll look into that. did you experience
   high load from the image resizing?
 *  Thread Starter [Marcelo Pedra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kent-brockman/)
 * (@kent-brockman)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-add-some-progress-indicator/#post-5560694)
 * I just tested it and the counter is very good! 🙂
 * Of note, when the images are being processed, the autoscroll effect has a weird
   behaviour since… ages. Since the very first time I used the plugin, I noticed
   the list seems to “try” scrolling to the end on every item added, but it just
   autoscroll to the middle. Not that I can’t live without that fixed, but is just
   a silly thing to comment about.
 * Regarding the CPU… I had to use the plugin in several kind of servers. those 
   ones with RAM < 1GB, can just stall and Apache need to be manually restarted.
   Others with 4 cores and 2-3 GB RAM will skyrocket load between 8 and 12, and 
   if you run it in a shared hosting to process hundred of photos that never been
   processed before, you can get an angry hosting provider.
    The same cpu thing 
   happens with other large batch processing plugins, like Regenerate Thumbnails,
   Auto Thumbnails, and Video Thumbnails. One thing I can think of, is why all those
   plugins and even Imsanity haven’t a Pause and Cancel button (Regenerate Thumbnails
   has just the Cancel). Because sometimes you may need to alleviate the cpu load
   manually, by pausing the process. Don’t know if this is possible using jQuery
   or you just need to pass some parameters with a standard HTML submit button, 
   but it is certainly a good feature.
 * Sorry for the long letter, I’m betatester and use to report things as thoroughly
   as possible 😉
 * Thank you!

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 * Last reply from: [Marcelo Pedra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kent-brockman/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-add-some-progress-indicator/#post-5560694)
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