Mapserver on Linux vs Windows

[Shoaib Burq]

There is also the issue of Apache not recommended for production use
on Win32, at least it was the last time i checked....

On 3/4/06, tim <tim.bowden at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 22:39 +0100, Sture Dingsøyr wrote:
> > Hi there
> >
> > We have a server running Mapserver on Linux (Red Hat 8). Is is used to generate maps, mainly from shapefiles. But also some layers from Postgis/WMS. To do this we use PHP and MapScrip...
> >
> > We are now considering the possibility to port our solution from Linux to Windows, mainly du to the fact that maintaining new versions of Mapserver on Windows are quite easy with the pre-built binary package that exists for Windows (no compiling is needed).
> >
> > Does anybody have any experience on how a Mapserver solution works on Windows compared to Linux. I am mainly thinking about speed and performance?
> >
> > Does Mapserver work faster on Linux?
> >
> > Regards Sture
>
> We have been testing mapserver on both linux (rhel 3.x) and windows (xp
> pro) for performance testing.  I can't remember the exact results
> (someone else on our team did the actual testing) but on high end
> hardware (Dell dual xeon 3ghz 4gb ram) ms on linux approached 50% higher
> load than on windows.  I'll have to check next week just how the test
> were done but the decision was clearly in favour of linux.  I do know
> that neither windows or linux were optimised and the feeling was we
> could extend the linux performance considerably (by doing things like
> not running X etc).
>
> HTH,
> Tim Bowden
> --
> Mapforge Geospatial
> Level 3/ 267 St Georges Tce
> Perth 6000
> Western Australia
>