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

[Adrian Popa]

Thanks,

I'm compiling mapserver with fast-cgi support and see how that works out.

Any idea if there is a difference in terms of speed if I make normal CGI 
queries vs WMS queries?

Regards,
Adrian

Pavel Iacovlev wrote:
> Fast-cgi is one process that manages all your connections (acts more
> like apache module) cgi creates a new process for every connection so
> fast-cgi is faster and consumes less resources.
> The best performance you should get with tilecache serving TMS(If it's
> supported by your client, openlayers supports it), images are request
> directly so there is almost no overhead
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Adrian Popa
> <adrian_gh.popa at romtelecom.ro> wrote:
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>> 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
>>
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