most badges timeout on shields.io

[thisconnect]

Is it just me? Do the badges work on http://shields.io/ for somebody?

[pmonks]

Very sporadic for me - they don't work more often than they do.

[pmonks]

See also issue #628.

[zbeekman]

I too am experiencing this problem. I am thinking of removing shields.io badges from my projects due to this ongoing issue.

[Foorack]

I'm also experiencing this issue as of 30 Jan. It worked an hour ago.

[zbeekman]

We have moved all of our badges to other service providers, and downloaded and saved static badges as local assets due to this unreliable performance.

[aantron]

👍

Second time last two weeks. Considering doing what @zbeekman did, annoying as it is.

[espadrine]

Thanks for reporting. Since it was at a time before we split the load between two servers, I believe this issue is resolved.

[FezVrasta]

I'm still experiencing it often @espadrine

[espadrine]

@FezVrasta We've had a bad player today ☹.

Currently, I don't enforce rate limits. Maybe I should do that?

[FezVrasta]

Not sure it's the problem, I'm experiencing these problems daily

[espadrine]

There's two other items that are painful for the RAM, which gets the server swapped, which probably doesn't help:

• bower downloads a lot of data over git. It can probably be implemented using https://bower.io/docs/api/ instead.
• For PNG images, I spawn headless google chrome instances, which take about 1.3 GB of virtual memory. It is not too common, but usually when it happens, someone was loading a page which has several of them on it. Using inkscape instead would probably be less expensive (and also potentially fails at providing a number of features, but PNG is for compatibility anyway).

[FezVrasta]

Why do you need PhantomJS or Inkscape for editing PNGs sever side? Isn't imagemagick enough?

convert -density 1200 -resize 200x200 source.svg target.png

Or also librsvg2-bin:

rsvg  -w 1024 -h 1024 infile.svg  outfile.png

Which can be used with Node https://www.npmjs.com/package/librsvg

Here several solutions:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9853325/how-to-convert-a-svg-to-a-png-with-image-magick

I'm preparing a PR.

[FezVrasta]

#860