Performance ArcIMS vs MapServer

[Martin Weinelt]

On Friday 20 May 2005 08:41, Johan Hallgren wrote:
> Hello
>
> We have created a testapplication that can be used on ArcIMS and now
> MapServer.
>
> Both MapServer and ArcIMS are on the same server (Windows 2000 server)
> with the same data (200 MB vectordata in shapefiles).
>
> MapServer is wrapped in a c#/dotnet webservice. The API to the webservice
> is ArcXML so both solutions have the same interface.
>
> The testapplication used sex simultaneous clients requested 500 maps each
> in total 3000 maps.
>
> RESULTS:
>
> MapServer
>
> Total time: 7.47 min (467 sec 0.1566 sec/map (image), 385 maps/min)
>
> Max delay for a map: 2.93 sec
>
> Min delay for a map: 0.14 sec
>
> Average for a map (with six simultaneous clients): 0.96 sec
>
>
> ArcIMS
>
> Total time: 12.08 min (728 sec 0.2426 sec/map (image), 247 maps/min)
>
> Max delay for a map: 3.94sec
>
> Min delay for a map: 0.12 sec
>
> Average for a map (with six simultaneous clients): 1,49 sec
>
> My calculations gives that MapServer is about 30% faster when zooming than
> ArcIMS
>
> Cheers
>
> Johan


Johan,

good job! This adds facts to performance 'impressions' one gets visiting
some IMS sites. Can you add your findings to the Wiki ('MapserverVsArcIMS')?

Cheers, Martin