[mapserver-users] Interesting Implementation of Mapserver

[woodbri at swoodbridge.com]

On 14 Aug 2002 at 10:34, Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au wrote:

> P.S. I am curious as to what "killed" the Mapserver. Was it an
> setup/optimisation problem or what? Our dev box started thrashing
> disk when someone placed a 300 Mb un-indexed shapefile into a map
> they were putting together (it doesn't matter how much CPU you have
> if it's going to take several seconds to read your shapefile from disk).

This is not totally true, you should add a shapetree index to the 
file and see what happens to performance, because then you will not 
be reading data that is not needed for display purposes!!!!

-Steve