[Doris]

in the top we can see on our server, sometimes big CPU spikes and stuck there for several hours like hanging from this utility.

exiftool -recurse -overwrite_original -EXIF= -ext jpg,jpeg /var/www/html

source file
https://github.com/littlebizzy/slickstack/blob/master/bash/ss-optimize-files.txt

[John]

CPU load sometimes like 60% from this process…

[Nancy]

Seems like this has been an issue for 10+ years, not only Linux but also Windows so not sure exactly why that’s still happening.

https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=1415.0

also

https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=8095.0

[Ralph]

I have seen some solutions using imagemagick but they seem too aggressive. Like you might delete all kinds of metadata besides only the EXIF stuff.

But, a few other options:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/260810/how-can-i-read-and-remove-meta-exif-data-from-my-photos-using-the-command-line

For example exiv2 and mat2 might work.

[Amber]

https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2

https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2

IT seems like exiv2 has a lot more documentation and bigger community but hard to find many examples of CLI commands for recursive

[Ruth]

https://dev.exiv2.org/boards/3/topics/950

Exiv2 can operate on all files in a directory at once, but it doesn’t recurse through a directory tree. You need to call exiv2 in a loop over all your directories, once for all directories (or twice, once to rename the file and once to adjust the timestamp).

10 years old not sure if still true

[Alan]

Hello all, we commented out exiftool process for now:

https://github.com/littlebizzy/slickstack/commit/9aae7b9c8cf06282c9fa86b756bc388e5c191bbd

[Linda]

the typical story of Unix utilities lmao

thanklessly maintained by some random dude in Nebraska, nobody contributes and then one day something goes wrong and everyone is shocked

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