AW: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Mapfile Tuning

[Pleyer, Walter]

Hi Steven!

We are using a mix of raster and shape files.
We compared the "fat" mapfile with a "slim" mapfile, that contained only
the layers, that we wanted to parse and the latter one was a lot faster.
Debug output showed that actually loading those layers and rendering the
map was equally fast, so obviously the loss on performance is connected
to the number of not displayed layers.

What I forgot to mention was the system: We are using Windows 2003 and
IIS on a 4 Xeon machine.

Walter