I'm working on a project that includes pictures for a google maps overlay and consequently contains around 750k image assets. This project uses rails 6 and webpacker, and after copying in all the files to the correct directory the webpage load times increase to the point of hours. The assets are located in /app/assets/images/.
So far I've tried using rails assets:precompile, which after a night of compiling didn't finish. An odd thing is this only happens after a server restart. If I copy in the files while the server is running then everything behaves and performs fine.
What can I do to fix this? Am I fundamentally misunderstanding where the images should go and how webpacker should fit in?
Thanks