[mapserver-users] MapServer on Intel Atom?

[kreshna_iceheart at yahoo.com]

Hi, thanks.

The vectors are quite simple. I've never experienced slow down when displayed vector data, not even on an old Toshiba M20 laptop.

Raster, on the other hand, is always the biggest problem. Compared to polygons, my raster is always slower to zoom, to pan, etc (despite the size is only 500 Mb). Is displaying raster more CPU-intensive or memory-intensive? If I'm using Intel Atom, will my raster be affected severely?

Also, can using bigger RAM (let say, 2GB or so) compensate for the lack of processing power of Intel Atom?

Thanks again,
-Kresh


--- On Mon, 1/12/09, Dan Little <danlittle at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Dan Little <danlittle at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] MapServer on Intel Atom?
> To: kreshna_iceheart at yahoo.com, mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Date: Monday, January 12, 2009, 9:18 PM
> I think the atom will be more than adequate... depending on
> the dataset. :-)
> 
> Serving 100 points is significantly less intensive than
> serving 100 city-boundary polygons.
> 
> 
> (Oops forgot to send to the list)
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: "kreshna_iceheart at yahoo.com"
> <kreshna_iceheart at yahoo.com>
> > To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 8:09:15 PM
> > Subject: [mapserver-users] MapServer on Intel Atom?
> > 
> > I'll be doing a lot of MapServer demo in the
> future. I'm quite interested in 
> > Intel Atom-based subnotebooks for the purpose (like
> Lenovo IdeaPad S10), since 
> > they are light and mobile.
> > 
> > However, I wonder if Intel Atom is adequate to run
> MapServer. The MapServer will 
> > be run on either ms4w on Windows XP, or directly on
> Linux. The layers are stored 
> > on postGIS (there are fifteen layers or so), and there
> is also a 476 megabytes 
> > raster file in .TIFF format.
> > 
> > Will Intel Atom be adequate for the purpose? Will 2GB
> of memory help? Has anyone 
> > ever done such thing before?
> > 
> > Many thanks,
> > -Kresh
> > 
> > 
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