Performance ArcIMS vs MapServer

[Olivier Gayte]

Congratulation. It's a good and useful job.
I assume you used shapefile data for your test.
Do you know if there is a significant difference with mapinfo .tab files ?

Regards

On Fri, 20 May 2005 01:41:50 -0500, Johan Hallgren
<johan.e.hallgren at WMDATA.SE> wrote:

>Hello
>
>We have created a testapplication that can be used on ArcIMS and now
>MapServer.
>
>Both MapServer and ArcIMS are on the same server (Windows 2000 server)
>with the same data (200 MB vectordata in shapefiles).
>
>MapServer is wrapped in a c#/dotnet webservice. The API to the webservice
>is ArcXML so both solutions have the same interface.
>
>The testapplication used sex simultaneous clients requested 500 maps each
>in total 3000 maps.
>
>RESULTS:
>
>MapServer
>
>Total time: 7.47 min (467 sec 0.1566 sec/map (image), 385 maps/min)
>
>Max delay for a map: 2.93 sec
>
>Min delay for a map: 0.14 sec
>
>Average for a map (with six simultaneous clients): 0.96 sec
>
>
>ArcIMS
>
>Total time: 12.08 min (728 sec 0.2426 sec/map (image), 247 maps/min)
>
>Max delay for a map: 3.94sec
>
>Min delay for a map: 0.12 sec
>
>Average for a map (with six simultaneous clients): 1,49 sec
>
>My calculations gives that MapServer is about 30% faster when zooming than
>ArcIMS
>
>Cheers
>
>Johan