[mapserver-users] Controling the amount of concurrent GetMap requests

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 11-05-26 05:01 PM, Mark Korver wrote:
> I would think that the thinking here is that a server only scales well
> to some number of concurrent requests.  That beyond that number, all
> requests suffer.  In this case it's better to queue the requests
> rather than try to process them, meaning queuing improves performance
> overall.

Folks,

I will just note that Apache + FastCGI makes it pretty easy to
limit the number of concurrent requests being processed and when
saturated the new requests are queued.  I presume they would timeout
after a while if there is just too much traffic.

Best regards,
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