<div>Thanks Jacob and Julien,</div>
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<div>I'm gonna try your suggestions, thanks a lot for your valuable information.</div>
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<div>Marta.<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">2006/10/11, Julien-Samuel Lacroix <<a href="mailto:jlacroix@mapgears.com">jlacroix@mapgears.com</a>>:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi,<br>I would also add to others comments that you should probably check to<br>optimize your mapfile as much ass possible. That's quite often a bottle
<br>neck. Check:<br><a href="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/mapfiletuning">http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/mapfiletuning</a><br><br>And also check to have shapefiles (fastest) or PostGIS DB (fastest for<br>
complex queries or complex classification) datasource.<br><br>Julien<br><br>marta fuster wrote:<br>> Paul,<br>><br>> Now I've read again my message and I've noticed I've made a mistake (I<br>> need to sleep more I guess). There were actually 4 users on a P4
1.4GHz<br>> 512RAM and that was for testing. They've told me that was very slow for<br>> them. Is it possible that it can be faster under Linux? Do I have to do<br>> something tricky to make it run faster under Windows? Because they're
<br>> expecting some hundreds of users viewing the map, and with these tests<br>> they're doing they don't feel very confident.<br>><br>> What would be the minimum specs for a PC in order to run Chameleon and<br>
> Apache comfortably?<br>><br>> Thanks a lot and sorry for my mistakes,<br>><br>> Marta<br>><br>><br>> 2006/10/10, Paul Spencer <<a href="mailto:pspencer@dmsolutions.ca">pspencer@dmsolutions.ca</a>
<br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:pspencer@dmsolutions.ca">pspencer@dmsolutions.ca</a>>>:<br>><br>> Marta,<br>><br>> this seems a little underpowered to me, but you would need to try it<br>> I guess.
<br>><br>> Cheers<br>><br>> Paul<br>><br>> On 10-Oct-06, at 4:12 AM, marta fuster wrote:<br>><br>> > Hi Paul,<br>> > Thanks a lot for your answer! I'm running on windows and today I've
<br>> > been told that it is planned to be on a windows pentium IV, 1.4GHz<br>> > with 512Mb RAM and that the website where it's going to be<br>> > implemented has now peaks of 3000 users. As I don't expect all of
<br>> > them to be looking at my map at the same time, I'd say a 300-users<br>> > peak would be a realistic number to deal with.<br>> > 1.4 GHz looks very slow to me, but I'd still like to know if a
<br>> > single processor could handle those few hundreds of users<br>> ><br>> > thanks a lot,<br>> ><br>> > Marta<br>> ><br>> ><br>> >
<br>> ><br>> > 2006/10/9, Paul Spencer <<a href="mailto:pspencer@dmsolutions.ca">pspencer@dmsolutions.ca</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:pspencer@dmsolutions.ca">pspencer@dmsolutions.ca
</a>>>: Marta,<br>> ><br>> > Are you running windows or linux on your server? How many users are<br>> > connecting simultaneously?<br>> ><br>> > Chameleon is heavy on server resources, so faster/more anything on
<br>> > the server will likely help.<br>> ><br>> > Cheers<br>> ><br>> > Paul<br>> ><br>> > On 9-Oct-06, at 6:21 AM, marta fuster wrote:<br>> >
<br>> > > Hi list,<br>> > ><br>> > > I've got a technical question. Some users have been using my<br>> > > application and they claim that when a few of them are trying to
<br>> > > zoom my map at the same time (accessing from different computers),<br>> > > the application starts to run very slowly. I am using Apache 2.2<br>> > > and a P4 - 2,6 GHz - 256Mb RAM
<br>> > ><br>> > > What are the minimum specs that I need in order to have a reliable<br>> > > server?<br>> > ><br>> > > thanks<br>> > >
<br>> > > Marta Fuster<br>> > ><br>> > > _______________________________________________<br>> > > Chameleon mailing list<br>> > > <a href="mailto:Chameleon@lists.maptools.org">
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