Jon, Thank you for the information. Given that it is rendering and storing in the .meta file, How do I troubleshoot why it is not being served from the .meta file (everytime I visit http://tiles/osm_tiles2/1/1/1.png, renderd goes through rendering again)
Wayne On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:14:43AM +0100, Jon Burgess wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 21:36 -0700, wwalker wrote: > > I've built and installed renderd and mod_tile. > > > > renderd receives a request. It builds 5 images, then it deletes them! > > > > extracted from an strace of renderd. > > > > I can run convert_meta and it will recreate the png files, but the next > > request, mod_tile doesn't use the existing .png, but requests a new one from > > renderd. renderd again creates the images and deletes them ... > > > > This is driving me nuts. > > The behaviour you describe is mostly intentional. > - Renders n x n tiles into .png files ( 2 x 2 for the zoom = 1 in your > example) > - Reads in these n x n files, creates 1 .meta tile as a archive of > the .png and then removes the .png > - When it gets a request for a tile it should extract it from the .meta > file instead of rendering again. > > You should not need to run convert_meta on the files. It is intentional > that the code stores and serves the the data from the .meta files. > convert_meta is really just there in case you want to debug the .meta > files, it should not be required in normal operation. > > Jon -- Wayne Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you use Linux?! http://www.bybent.com Get Counted! http://counter.li.org/ Perl - http://www.perl.org/ Perl User Groups - http://www.pm.org/ Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: lwwalkerbybent IRC: wwalker on freenode.net _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev

