[Chameleon] technical question

[marta fuster]

Thanks Jacob and Julien,

I'm gonna try your suggestions, thanks a lot for your valuable information.

Marta.


2006/10/11, Julien-Samuel Lacroix <jlacroix at mapgears.com>:
>
> Hi,
> I would also add to others comments that you should probably check to
> optimize your mapfile as much ass possible. That's quite often a bottle
> neck. Check:
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/mapfiletuning
>
> And also check to have shapefiles (fastest) or PostGIS DB (fastest for
> complex queries or complex classification) datasource.
>
> Julien
>
> marta fuster wrote:
> > Paul,
> >
> > Now I've read again my message and I've noticed I've made a mistake (I
> > need to sleep more I guess). There were actually 4 users on a P4 1.4GHz
> > 512RAM and that was for testing. They've told me that was very slow for
> > them. Is it possible that it can be faster under Linux? Do I have to do
> > something tricky to make it run faster under Windows? Because they're
> > expecting some hundreds of users viewing the map, and with these tests
> > they're doing they don't feel very confident.
> >
> > What would be the minimum specs for a PC in order to run Chameleon and
> > Apache comfortably?
> >
> > Thanks a lot and sorry for my mistakes,
> >
> > Marta
> >
> >
> > 2006/10/10, Paul Spencer <pspencer at dmsolutions.ca
> > <mailto:pspencer at dmsolutions.ca>>:
> >
> >     Marta,
> >
> >     this seems a little underpowered to me, but you would need to try it
> >     I guess.
> >
> >     Cheers
> >
> >     Paul
> >
> >     On 10-Oct-06, at 4:12 AM, marta fuster wrote:
> >
> >      > Hi Paul,
> >      > Thanks a lot for your answer! I'm running on windows and today
> I've
> >      > been told that it is planned to be  on a windows pentium IV,
> 1.4GHz
> >      > with 512Mb RAM and that the website  where it's going to be
> >      > implemented has now peaks of 3000 users. As I don't expect all of
> >      > them to be looking at my map at the same time, I'd say a
> 300-users
> >      > peak would be a realistic number to deal with.
> >      > 1.4 GHz looks very slow to me, but I'd still like to know if a
> >      > single processor could handle those few hundreds of users
> >      >
> >      > thanks a lot,
> >      >
> >      > Marta
> >      >
> >      >
> >      >
> >      >
> >      > 2006/10/9, Paul Spencer <pspencer at dmsolutions.ca
> >     <mailto:pspencer at dmsolutions.ca>>: Marta,
> >      >
> >      > Are you running windows or linux on your server?  How many users
> are
> >      > connecting simultaneously?
> >      >
> >      > Chameleon is heavy on server resources, so faster/more anything
> on
> >      > the server will likely help.
> >      >
> >      > Cheers
> >      >
> >      > Paul
> >      >
> >      > On 9-Oct-06, at 6:21 AM, marta fuster wrote:
> >      >
> >      > > Hi list,
> >      > >
> >      > > I've got a technical question. Some users have been using my
> >      > > application and they claim that when a few of them are trying
> to
> >      > > zoom my map at the same time (accessing from different
> computers),
> >      > > the application starts to run very slowly. I am using Apache
> 2.2
> >      > > and a P4 - 2,6 GHz - 256Mb RAM
> >      > >
> >      > >  What are the minimum specs that I need in order to have a
> reliable
> >      > > server?
> >      > >
> >      > > thanks
> >      > >
> >      > > Marta Fuster
> >      > >
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