[Mapserver-users] Installation size

[Vinko Vrsalovic]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:13:37PM -0300, Daniel Berstein wrote:
> Thanks Vinko. The service that is giving me trouble is only available on 
> Win32 platform and when system resources get too low strange things happen 
> (like services going down, maps rendering blank, etc.). 

That's why I always try to use Free Software :-)

Can't you run MapServer in one machine and the service in another?

> I'm planning only 
> to server from static shape files. No mapscript, no postgis, no nothing... 
> I need every picosecond of performance.

I don't remember if MapServer supports them, but there're DBF indexes
you could use (if supported). BTW, are they supported?

> I'll be doing a stress test before commiting to Mapserver... but 
> nevertheless I've found others expiriences quite valuable on the past.

BTW, have you tried other alternatives? The time I tested an
alternative (ArcIMS 3.1 on Windows) MS3.5 was a lot faster...

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