[mapserver-users] MapServer on Intel Atom?

[Milo van der Linden]

Just out of curiosity,

With what reason would you like to have a mapserver on a mobile device? 
I assume mostly to have some sort of localhost connection from a local 
application, and in that case, I would opt for a solution where one can 
for instance download raster-tiles from a server to the mobile device 
that are then used by the application through more simplified functions, 
for vector the same procedure, download vectors and make them available 
through libraries. Installing a httpserver with mapserver as a cgi app 
sounds like a bit of overkill. Perhaps the mobile app can simply use 
gdal and ogr libraries.




Dan Little wrote:
> I agree with where Jukka is going...  Raster layers are usually pretty fast so long as they are tuned correctly.
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> ----- Original Message ----
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>> From: Rahkonen Jukka <Jukka.Rahkonen at mmmtike.fi>
>> To: kreshna_iceheart at yahoo.com; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 6:04:07 AM
>> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] MapServer on Intel Atom?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> You say that your raster layer is slower than vector layers, but do you feel it 
>> is too slow?  Your image should be served pretty fast by Mapserver.  The key is 
>> that tiff file is tiled (for zoom-in situation) and that it has overviews (for 
>> zoom-out case). Could you send the gdalinfo report about your image if you 
>> suffer from slowness?
>>
>> -Jukka Rahkonen-
>>
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>>> Vastaanottaja: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org; Dan Little
>>> Aihe: Re: [mapserver-users] MapServer on Intel Atom?
>>>
>>> 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 wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> From: Dan Little 
>>>> 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 
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>>> 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"
>>>>>           
>>>>> 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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