[Geomoose-users] Performance issues

[Jeffrey Schmitz]

Hey guys, I am having performance issues, and was wondering if anyone
had any tips on how we could possibly speed up our site. Our current
setup:

We have a postGIS table with data in WGS84(EPSG:4326). It is defined
such in our mapfile layer definitions, and projected by mapserver as
Web Mercator (EPSG:900913) for web map services, which are served by
geomoose.
Currently, with only a couple of layers turned on (Wisconsin,
Minnesota and Michigan counties, and the great lakes), our site takes
a LONG time to load (45seconds to a minute). It appears to me that
this is an issue with our setup, not network speed. If launched in
firefox, you can see that the page loads fine, but is slow when
loading the wms tiles (you see "waiting" for a while and then
"transferring"  for a couple seconds, and then "waiting" again for
long periods).

We also have an identical site that uses mapserver and mapfiles
directly instead of WMS, and it loads in everything in just a couple
of seconds.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to why we would be seeing such
significant slow down when using web map services?

Thanks for any help!

Jeff