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    <p>I left this question for a few days because I hoped someone with
      more technical knowledge than me of how Qgis works with this type
      of data would be able to answer your question. As a user I don't
      have the same technical insight as one of the developers who may
      be reading this question and more familiar with data processing in
      the software.<br>
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    <p>I currently work with projects that use large numbers of data
      layers of raster type, however in my case they are all in files
      that I have downloaded to my computer and loading locally, rather
      than any type of data that could be accessed from an online
      server.</p>
    <p>I have found in experience with working with raster layers that
      Qgis 3 is handling them quite differently from previous versions
      (I have been using Qgis since 1.8). It was not until version 2.14
      that I started working with the projects using these large numbers
      of raster images, and have been using them through 2.14, 2.16 and
      2.18 and now in releases of version 3.</p>
    <p>The map projects I am working on cover a part of New Zealand
      specifically a corridor around 6000 kilometres long and about 20
      metres wide which is covered by geojpeg rasters varying from 0.4
      to 0.1 metre per pixel resolution and the size of each raster is
      generally 4800x7200 pixels.<br>
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    <p>The experience I had is that Qgis 3.x appears to be caching a lot
      more raster data in memory than I saw with 2.x and it seems to be
      caching every raster in my project, not just the ones that I am
      displaying at the moment. It uses up the resources in my system a
      lot faster than 2.x ever did. And if I use larger size raster
      files, I have seen it run out of resources on the system more than
      once. <br>
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    <p>So in terms of the way it consumes resources for rasters, my
      experience is more related to the way I see it using up the
      physical resources on my computer like the physical or virtual
      memory. I ended up adding more RAM to my system and more swap disk
      space to help deal with the extra drain on resources that has
      happened since upgrading to version 3.<br>
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    <p>There is a section in the settings dialog that specifically
      relates to rendering. I'm not completely confident this is the
      type of situation that would be relevant to your scenario. It may
      affect my situation more if I spent some time playing with these
      settings (render caching for example) but it might not be so
      relevant to you, unless the render caching is causing the software
      to download a lot of raster data from your WMS server. You could
      try experimenting with some of those settings.</p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/03/19 2:08 AM, Pascale Hutter
      wrote:<br>
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      <div class="">Thanks for your interest! Its raster data of aerial
        images (<a
href="https://shop.swisstopo.admin.ch/de/products/geoservice/swisstopo_geoservices/swisstopoWMS"
          class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://shop.swisstopo.admin.ch/de/products/geoservice/swisstopo_geoservices/swisstopoWMS</a>).
        I often use this for small environmental projects of mine, where
        I have no budget to buy any additional data. So far the 5’000
        Megapixel were enough to work during the whole year. Now it was
        finished up within a month, although I did much less work. </div>
      <div class="">I did read, that the whole wms-layer part was newly
        written for the QGIS version 3.x, so maybe this has something to
        do with it? </div>
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      <div class="">Thank you for any kind of help!</div>
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                  your wms layer. Is this vector or raster type of data?<br
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                <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 19/03/19 12:59 AM,
                  Pascale Hutter wrote:<br class="">
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                  <div class="">I’m quite new to QGIS version 3, and was
                    before working with QGIS 2.18. I often use
                    wms-layer, where I purchase a certain data-volume
                    (p. ex. 5’000 pixel) to work with. However, with the
                    new QGIS 3.0 this data volume is used up far more
                    quickly. In QGIS 2.18 it lasted a lot longer. I was
                    wondering if any of you mades some similar
                    experiences? Do you have any idea, if there is a way
                    to change the settings so the data volume would last
                    longer again?</div>
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                  <div class="">Thank you very much for any
                    suggestions! </div>
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