[mapserver-users] What resourse blocks any bigger GeoTIFF output from WCS?

Rahkonen Jukka (MML) jukka.rahkonen at maanmittauslaitos.fi
Wed Aug 5 05:48:53 PDT 2015


Even Rouault wrote:

> On Wednesday 05 August 2015 12:16:49 Rahkonen Jukka wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Thank you very much about the information. How much about the troubles 
>> remain if 64-bit system is used,

> With a 64 bit system, you would still need to be able to allocate 3 times the size of the output file, either from RAM only or RAM + swap space.

Doesn't it mean that if WCS server happens to get lots of users who would make for example 500 MB requests on average  the result could be huge RAM usage, lots of swapping and perhaps not so good service level?

-Jukka-


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