<div>Thanks for the information. I will have to check into mod_python. I should be able to run two webservers on the same box although probably not recommended.</div>
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<div>Linda<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Christopher Schmidt</b> <<a href="mailto:crschmidt@metacarta.com">crschmidt@metacarta.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 07:39:16AM -0600, Linda Rawson wrote:<br>> I'm not using IronPython but I am using IIS with a
<a href="http://asp.net">asp.net</a> front end. I<br>> haven't see the performance issues because once the images are on disk it<br>> flys.<br><br>'flies' is relative. TileCache can serve a couple hundred tiles a second
<br>-- under CGI on IIS, you won't even get a tenth of that due to Python<br>startup times, and your machine will perform much more sluggishly when<br>you do.<br><br>Per-tile, the time is great -- probably 5-10 times faster than direct
<br>WMS access, if not more for some slow WMS servers. However, compared to<br>access via mod_python or similar, the load time is crap, and doesn't<br>scale when you need a service for dozens of simulataneous users.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>--<br>Christopher Schmidt<br>MetaCarta<br></blockquote></div><br>