MapServer performance

[Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)]

Hi Antti,

which version of VMWare? 3 or 4?

We have a significant performance drop in Mapserver (about a factor 3)
running on VMWare 3. VMWare 4 is supposed to have better performance for
this type of application.

Best regards,
Bart

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Bart van den Eijnden
OSGIS, Open Source GIS
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--------- Oorspronkelijk bericht --------
Van: antti siukola <siukola.antti at GMAIL.COM>
Naar: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
Onderwerp: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] MapServer performance
Datum: 27/03/07 08:52

> Hi!
> 
> I finally got some specs for our server. We have an vmware Virtual
> infrastructure 3 with fysical hardware of Dell PE 6850 dual dual-core
> cpu with 12 GB of RAM. Hard drives are EMC CX3-20 SAN system. And the
> system allocates 1GB RAM for us.
> 
> Antti S
> 
> 
> On 3/27/07, Romolo Manfredini &lt;romoloman at hotmail.com&gt; wrote:
> &gt; From: &quot;Rahkonen Jukka&quot;
> &gt; &gt; My test system has 3 GHz prosessor and 1 GB of memory.  I have
on an
> &gt; external Firewire 400 unit worth 2 TB of imagery, consisting or
> &gt; &gt; individual 300 MB GeoTIFF images.  Those are uncompressed and
with
> &gt; overviews, but untiled.  I have made layers out of those by creating
> &gt; &gt; tileindices. When I run test with Jmeter by sending simple,
unique WMS
> &gt; request hitting 1-4 original GeoTIFF files the throughput is around
200
> &gt; &gt; requests per minute.  The size of the output image is 500 by 500
pixels
> &gt; and the requests are tuned to suit the original resolution.
> &gt;
> &gt; You can try performing Jmeter test against a very simple php script
that
> &gt; output a map, so you can understand the phpmapscript overhead.
> &gt; I'm not in condition to perform such a test on my high-end server and
the
> &gt; test server is really downsized so i would not take my results as
reliable,
> &gt; sorry.
> &gt;
> &gt; Romolo Manfredini
> &gt;
> 
>