[ms4w-users] ms4w-users Digest, Vol 57, Issue 1

Paul Wickman pjwickman at gmail.com
Tue Jan 13 12:49:52 EST 2009


Kresh,

I'd be very interested to hear how you experiences go with running
ms4w/postgis on the subnotebook.  Let the group know how things went, or you
can also email me directly.

Thanks,
 -Paul


On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:00 AM, <ms4w-users-request at lists.maptools.org>wrote:

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> From: "kreshna_iceheart at yahoo.com" <kreshna_iceheart at yahoo.com>
> To: ms4w-users at lists.maptools.org
> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:09:57 -0800 (PST)
> Subject: [ms4w-users] ms4w on Intel Atom?
> I'll be doing a lot of MapServer demo in the future. I'm quite interested
> in Intel Atom-based subnotebooks for the purpose (like Lenovo IdeaPad S10),
> since they are light and mobile.
>
> However, I wonder if Intel Atom is adequate to run MapServer. The MapServer
> will be run on either ms4w on Windows XP Home. The layers are stored on
> postGIS (there are fifteen layers or so), and there is also a 476 megabytes
> raster file in .TIFF format.
>
> Will Intel Atom be adequate for the purpose? Will 2GB of memory help? Has
> anyone ever done such thing before?
>
> Many thanks,
> -Kresh
>
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
> To: ms4w-users at lists.maptools.org
> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:20:53 -0500
> Subject: Re: [ms4w-users] ms4w on Intel Atom?
> kreshna_iceheart at yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> I'll be doing a lot of MapServer demo in the future. I'm quite interested
>> in Intel Atom-based subnotebooks for the purpose (like Lenovo IdeaPad S10),
>> since they are light and mobile.
>>
>> However, I wonder if Intel Atom is adequate to run MapServer. The
>> MapServer will be run on either ms4w on Windows XP Home. The layers are
>> stored on postGIS (there are fifteen layers or so), and there is also a 476
>> megabytes raster file in .TIFF format.
>>
>> Will Intel Atom be adequate for the purpose? Will 2GB of memory help? Has
>> anyone ever done such thing before?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> -Kresh
>>
>>
> For that large tiff, I would make sure that you use overviews with the
> 'gdaladdo' utility.  There is always the option of converting those postgis
> layers to shapefiles, if you were that worried about speed (and if storing
> them in a db on that new machine has no benefit to your application).
>
> -jeff
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