[mapserver-users] Why mapfile parsing is so slow on Windows

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Hi,
 
Sorry, I can't help you with your question but I would also like to know the answer if this is a common behaviour.  I checked with my mapfile which has about 2000 lines and parsing time is something like 0.1 seconds on Windows.  How long is your "quite a long mapfile"?
 
I suppose that making parsing faster would mean that there should be some kind of cache or then a super fast disk.  Is anybody using ramdisks nowadays?
 
-Jukka Rahkonen-


________________________________

	Lähettäjä: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Puolesta Erdem Guven
	Lähetetty: 25. maaliskuuta 2010 17:47
	Vastaanottaja: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
	Aihe: [mapserver-users] Why mapfile parsing is so slow on Windows
	
	
	Hello,
	
	I have a quite long mapfile. On Linux it takes about 2.5 seconds to draw an image but on Windows it takes more than 10 seconds. 
	
	I used same source (5.6.1) and same configuration parameters to compile on both platforms. 
	
	So I used a debugger and realized that it spends more than half of the time to parse the mapfile.
	
	Why mapfile parsing is so slow on Windows? What can I do about that?
	
	Erdem
	

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/attachments/20100329/36ee74db/attachment.htm>