[mapserver-users] Mapserver speed/load test

[Jeff McKenna]

On 2016-10-05 12:45 PM, Leroux, Alexandre (EC) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On this topic, I remember seeing this FOSS4G 2016 presentation named
> 2016 Stress Testing and Analysing MapServer Performance
> <http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openstreetmap/FOSS4G-2016/foss4g-2016-1107-stress_testing_and_analysing_mapserver_performance-hd.mp4>
> (http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openstreetmap/FOSS4G-2016/foss4g-2016-1107-stress_testing_and_analysing_mapserver_performance-hd.mp4
> ). Surprisingly, in this speaker's experience, MapServer has been much
> faster on Windows than on Linux, see his talk / slides that begin
> slightly after 15:20. I'm really no expert on the topic, but maybe this
> info can serve in this discussion (of course, configuration/fine tuning
> is probably crucial to performances)?
>

Yes thanks for mentioning that presentation Alex.  I also confirmed with 
Seth (the presenter) that they run MS4W on their public-facing servers.

Thank you to Seth for sharing those results!

-jeff


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