[mapserver-users] Potential for 100's of layers

[Jonathon.Root at agso.gov.au]

The most we've done is 210 shapefiles with no problems, bit slow of course
(~400Mb of data) if you want to view all the layers at once but otherwise
fine.

regards,
Jonathon


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Giesbrecht [mailto:mgiesbrecht at geoarctic.com]
Sent: Thursday, 30 August 2001 9:12
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: [mapserver-users] Potential for 100's of layers


Hi all,

Incredible application, this MapServer.  I am presently trying to create
an online app that can potentially access hundreds of shapefiles.  I've
found out a bit about the MS_MAXLAYERS defined in map.h, where Stephen
Lime, at the time, thought it was a reasonable limit.  Without having
tested the limits of MapServers performance with a huge number of
layers, are there any users out there who have come across this yet?
How nuts would I have to be to define 500 shapefiles in the map file,
all loaded at once?

Any thoughts, suggestions?

Thanks,

Mark
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Mark Giesbrecht, M.Sc.
GIS Programmer/Analyst
GeoArctic International Services Ltd.
mgiesbrecht at geoarctic.com http://www.geoarctic.com