[mapserver-users] MapServer 6.0.0-beta1 release - Please test!

[Andy Colson]

On 03/10/2011 07:16 PM, Andy Colson wrote:
> On 03/09/2011 08:47 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
>> The MapServer Team is pleased to announce the release of MapServer 6.0.0-beta1. This is the first beta on our way to a final 6.0 release.
>>
>
> I cannot seem to get opengl to work.
>
> a stacktrace of shp2img:
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x00007ffff690bcab in glGetIntegerv () from /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1
> (gdb) backtrace
> #0 0x00007ffff690bcab in glGetIntegerv () from /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1
> #1 0x000000000047667f in OglRenderer::OglRenderer(unsigned int, unsigned int, colorObj*) ()
> #2 0x0000000000474988 in msImageCreateOgl(int, int, outputFormatObj*, colorObj*) ()
> #3 0x000000000044cd26 in msPrepareImage ()
> #4 0x000000000044ce75 in msDrawMap ()
> #5 0x0000000000415067 in main ()
> (gdb)
>
>
>
> MapServer version 6.0.0-beta1 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=AGG SUPPORTS=CAIRO SUPPORTS=OPENGL SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=ICONV SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=GEOS INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE
>
> I dont need special video card and/or drivers, do I? And I'm not running X. Dont need to, do I?
>
> -Andy
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To reply to myself, after some googling, it looks like yes, X is needed.

Which kinda sucks.  This is a webserver, it runs apache and postgresql.  In a rack someplace.  Doesn't even have a monitor attached.  If I ever need to do something I ssh in.

Its also has a crappy video card.  Cuz its a server.  Never thought I'd need good video.

So here is my delima: do I buy a $80 video card, and run X, so I can get hardware accelerated maps?  Is it worth it?  Is it that much faster?

How many concurrent maps can be drawn at once?  If 10 people hit my website can all 10 images be rendered at once?  Or will one run and the others error out?  Is there an upper limit for the number of concurrent renderings?

Any benchmarks?

-Andy