Richard Fairhurst wrote: > In brief, one of the performance problems we have is that when you ask > for all the data within an bbox, Rails retrieves all the nodes from > the db in one hit, creating an object for every single node. If you > have 5000 nodes in one bbox, that's quite a memory footprint.
Could you please elaborate on this footprint? Even if an object is 1k we are talking about 5MB of memory at once; that is peanuts comparing it to the actual running process. Stefan _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev