[mapserver-users] Limit of records

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Hi,
 
There is no limit for number of records in Mapserver.  Apache. that is used as http server in front of Mapserver does have timeout, which is 300 seconds by default but can be adjusted.  Generally speaking number of records does not tell much about how hard that layer is to handle, if anything.  It depends more on the vector data format, nature of the features (points vs. polygons with thousands of vertices), indexing etc.   However, I would say that normally 63 thousand features is  not much and if Mapserver hits the timeout then the data are not suitable for Mapserver without some preprocessing.  So, please describe what kind of data you have.  Ogrinfo report about the layer would be a good addition.
 
-Jukka Rahkonen-


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	Lähettäjä: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Puolesta Iratxe Lejarreta
	Lähetetty: 20. toukokuuta 2009 13:40
	Vastaanottaja: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
	Aihe: [mapserver-users] Limit of records
	
	
	Hi,
	

	
	

	I have problems with some layers and I'm thinking that the reason is the number of records.
	For example, with a layer which has 63057 records, the result is the following: 
	500 Internal Server Error
	And Apache log error: 
	Timeout waiting for output from CGI script /var/cgi-bin/mapserv
	

	
	

	If exist a limit, which is the maximun number of records that mapserver can support?
	
	And in this case, what is the solution?
	

	
	

	Thanks in advance,
	

	
	

	-- 
	Iratxe Lejarreta
	www.axios.es 

	

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