[mapserver-users] Production mapserver

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 3/21/2011 1:52 PM, Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH wrote:
> In the benchmark testing we did last year, see
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Benchmarking_2010, I tested MapServer with
> minimal formats (just PostGIS) compiled it vs MapServer with Oracle,
> PostGIS, GDAL/OGR. There was no difference affect on performance by having a
> minimal build.

Mike,

While this might be true, having a minimal built does potentially 
require less memory for the processes running which more available for 
file cache performance that might have an impact in a production 
environment, especially if you are trying to push a lot of map draws 
through the system.

Another trick you can do on Linux, is to disable the swap partition if 
you do not need it, and if you are just serving mapserver requests you 
do not. This will improve performance by 1-2% on the system, because 
Linux is what is called a swappy OS, ie it has a how propensity to swap 
stuff to disk in anticipation that it might need the memory for 
something else.

-Steve W