[mapserver-users] Mapscript taking too long on my production server

[Andy Colson]

Nelson Correia wrote:
>  
> Hi all,
>  
> I'm doing an application in C# that uses mapscript to generate images. 
> The features come from a postgis database.
>  
> On my development machine all goes well and the image is always 
> generated in less than 1 second. When I deployed the application to my 
> two production servers (both powerfull than my dev machine), I noticed a 
> very strange behavior: it takes +-20 seconds to generate the same image. 
> Doing some debug on what's happening, I realized that was the call to 
> mapObj.draw() method that was taking all that time.
> 
> Thinking it could be a database related problem, (note that I'm using a 
> local database) I've inspected the server logs and saw that the query 
> only arrived at the database after that 20 seconds. So, the time is 
> being taken in the draw, but before the database call.
>  
> Anyone have a clue on what could be happening?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Nelson
> 

dns lookup timeout?

-Andy