Questions about Mapserver CGI

Sean Gillies sgillies at FRII.COM
Tue Jan 24 06:33:44 PST 2006


On Jan 24, 2006, at 7:08 AM, Chip Taylor wrote:

> I have a couple of technical questions concerning Mapserver CGI  
> (running
> under IIS):
>
> 1. Is Mapserver multi-threaded?
> 2. Has Mapserver been tested running in a 64-bit environment (under  
> Server
> 2003 64-Bit edition)?  If so, what was the result compared to 32-bit?
>
> Thanks for the help.
> Chip Taylor
> Prepared Response, Inc

Chip,

MapServer itself never creates new threads, but if I am not mistaken,  
libcurl (which is used within the W*S client code) does make parallel  
requests in separate threads.

I have no help for you on #2.

cheers,
Sean

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