[Tilecache] Making TileCache seed faster?

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 09:30:55AM +0200, Miguel Eduardo Gil Biraud wrote:
> Hi,
> I was following this thread and then I was surprised by your statement...
> 
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 4:23 AM, Christopher Schmidt
> <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 02:01:22PM -0600, Gregor Mosheh wrote:
> >  The pure act of 'precaching' is ~20 tiles/sec via CGI, 300 tiles/sec via
> >  mod_python, and 10000 tiles/sec (essentially only limited by disk read
> >  speed) via local Python.
> 
> How do you invoke it via local Python to reach the 10000 tiles/sec
> performance? I am particularly interested to use it when a seeding
> process breaks down and I have to resume. In low levels it is not a
> problem as the number of tiles is small, but as soon as you go a
> little bit deeper the number of tiles explodes and then it means a
> long time to get to the point when you start to get again cache
> misses.

 1. Use Tilecache > 1.9
 2. Get Really Really fast disks.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta