[mapserver-users] Gallery: running mapserver in docker on kubernetes

[Jan Hartmann]

Impressive, looks like viscurl is a real alternative to local files. 
Thanks for the information, I'm certainly going to look further on this.

Jan

On 8/30/2019 6:15 PM, Peter Schmitt wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 9:48 AM Jan Hartmann <j.l.h.hartmann at uva.nl 
> <mailto:j.l.h.hartmann at uva.nl>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks Peter, this is really useful. Do you have any real-world
>     benchmarks for MapServer that compare regular file access with
>     vsicurl access, using optimized Geotifs? I've seen the tests for
>     GDAL at https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/CloudOptimizedGeoTIFF,
>     but what about servering  large map-sets over the web?
>
> I don't have any sort of formal benchmarks... but I can provide 
> anecdotes from my experiences. Random access to a 256x256 block of 
> extremely large COGs served from fast SSD would have maybe 100ms 
> response.  The same COG accessed with /vsicurl/:  First time the tile 
> is requested about 400ms. GDAL has a least recently used curl cache.  
> When a tile is cached, subsequent requests can be served maybe about 
> 100ms. My cloud provider is AWS... so access from s3 using MapServer 
> running in a Docker container on an AWS EC2 instance in the us-east-1 
> region... and the tile is requested from my local wireless network in 
> Colorado.
>
> When the data is a COG in s3 and MapServer runs near the cloud 
> storage, performance is quite good. I've scaled only to dozens of 
> users.  Allegedly s3 can scale to 5,500 requests per second per prefix 
> in s3. 
> https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/optimizing-performance.html Presumably 
> it would scale fairly well by adding more MapServer processes.

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