[Mapserver-users] Map broker?

[Lars V. Nielsen]

Hi K,




I've used MapXtreme too, and thus used the MapXbroker handler.




I don't think a broker is needed with Mapserver. Contrary to MapX, Mapserver 
loads (and renders) quite fast, usually within a couple of seconds. A "broker" 
is only necessary when the mapping component is large (and slow) to load, and 
MapX is rather large.




On top of that, I don't think Mapserver is suited for pooling and re-use. Its 
architecture is streamlined to a load-execute-drop method, and I would expect 
severe problem when running it multiple times serving different requests. But 
that's just my impression....




I've used Mapserver with large datasets, vector as well as raster, and only 
experienced slugginess with vector when using "Styleitem Auto" with MapInfo 
tables. But with shape files that's not a problem.




Mvh


Lars V. Nielsen


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Citering Krzysztof Chodak <k.chodak at autoguard.pl>:




> Has anyone of You any experience with MapServer and large amount of 


> data. By large amount of data I take approximately 300MB of shapefiles. 


> I think that MapServer's current architecture is not suitable for this 


> use (when taking into account couple hits per second).


> 


> I got some knowledge of MapInfo MapXtreme - there is a mechanism of map 


> objects broker which is preinitializing map objects and "renting" them 


> on request. Don't you think that it would be great to have such 


> "map-buffering" mechanism? I'm inspecting MapServer's code to find some 


> clues wether it is hard to do it or not...


> 


> Krzysztof Chodak


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