Is MapServer Thread-safe?

[Ed McNierney]

Adrian -

Why do you think this is a "big limitation"?  There are many MapServer users, myself included, running MapServer as a CGI application - including as a WMS server - with "many clients running simultaneously".  What kind of equipment are you using and what kind of user load do you expect?  It sounds like you have concluded that a standard CGI WMS application of MapServer is simply unsuitable for you, and I haven't seen information that explains why you think that.

     - Ed

Ed McNierney
Chief Mapmaker
Demand Media / TopoZone.com
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA  01863
Phone: 978-251-4242, Fax: 978-251-1396
ed at topozone.com

-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Developers List [mailto:MAPSERVER-DEV at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Adrian Kruk
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 3:22 AM
To: MAPSERVER-DEV at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-DEV] Is MapServer Thread-safe?

In my opinion this bug should be done as soon as possible. Maybe core
developers should consider to plan new release only for doing mapserver
multithreaded. 
These is big limitation.

What about running MapServer as WMS server, is there the same problem with
performance with many clients running simultanously?