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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi All,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I am looking into purchasing a new production server to run MapServer on, and I am looking for some specifications.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Our current server has a 3GHz Xeon Processor, 1 GB RAM, a mirrored pair of 36GB Drives, running Ubuntu Linux (2.6.x kernel) . I have hyper threading turned off.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Our memory usage is up over 95% all the time, so I obviously need more RAM. We are looking to improve the session start-up time (I know part of this is the PHP interface / Java Applet and we are working on that), and we want to improve the map rendering and searching time. Currently all our vector data is stored in shape files.</FONT></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Microsoft Sans Serif">Cheers Ian</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Microsoft Sans Serif">______________________</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
<B></B></FONT><B><FONT FACE="Georgia">Ian Tidy</FONT></B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT><B></B><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Georgia">GIS Analyst / Developer</FONT></B><BR>
<FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Georgia">Works Asset Department</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Georgia">Napier City Council</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Georgia">Hastings St, Private Bag 6010, Napier, New Zealand</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT><B></B><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Georgia">Phone +64-6-835-7579 Ext. 8115</FONT></B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Georgia">Fax +64-6-834-4195</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT></SPAN><A HREF="mailto:iant@napier.govt.nz"><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Georgia">mailto:iant@napier.govt.nz</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-nz"><BR>
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