[mapserver-users] Any ways to increase performance of Mapserver?

[Adrian Popa]

Hello, sorry for this noobie question, but I have been running mapserver 
as a cgi process and sometimes I need to make lots of calls to it to get 
the data I want. I have used TileCache to get the layers I need and 
which don't change over time and it speeds things up considerably.

I was wondering - is it possible (and is it more efficient?) to run 
mapserver as fast-cgi? Would it increase speed? The mapserver in the 
cgi-bin directory is already a binary file - so I'm not sure if fast-cgi 
would do any good.

Also, would I have any extra speed benefits if I make WMS queries 
instead of regular cgi queries?

Thank you,
Adrian