[mapserver-users] Re: [mapserver-dev] Upper Limit to Number of Layers in Map file

[thomas bonfort]

http://mapserver.org/input/raster.html#rasters-and-tile-indexing

on a side note, the number of layers isn;'t limited at compile time
since version 5.0

--
thomas


On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 18:41, Peter Willis <peterw at borstad.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am attempting to use mapserver as a WMS server for
> a large number of rasters.
>
> The system I am using has a collection of over 21000
> geo-referenced  rasters.
>
> These can be sorted into various groups, however
> any specific group of rasters may exceed 400 or more.
>
> I have tried modifying the value MS_MAXLAYERS in
> map.h and recompiling but am unsure if I will exceed
> the binary size of whatever variables are affected by
> that constant.
>
> What is the maximum, safe, binary size of the
> MS_MAXLAYERS constant that will not overflow
> the variables/procedures that use it?
>
> (ie: ulong32, ulong64, ushort16, uchar8,...???)
>
> Thanks for any insights,
>
> Peter
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