Howto Evaluate Performance of Mapserver/mapfiles

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Hi all,

I am wondering if there are any tools built into mapserver that would
help in evaluation performance of my mapfile and help indicate things I
might want to consider changing.

Are there any useful mapfile settings or command line settings that
would dump useful information about performance?

I am looking at trying to tune some mapfiles and it would be helpful to
know what layers got drawn, how many objects were rendered, how much
time was spent on each layer, how many files were opened for each layer,
etc.

My mapfile is totally shapefile layers and a lot of them at that > 100
layers.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

-Steve W.