On 08/09/09 08:02, Patrick Petschge Kilian wrote: > The first one would be a (decently fast) OSMXAPI server. Since the 0.6 API > switch there seems to be a shortage of XAPI servers. If there was a > stable, fast and up to date XAPI server it would help lots of people and > it might reduce load on the main API.
We've already given XAPI a server, and before we give it any more hardware I would need some serious convincing that XAPI as it currently exists is actually workable and scalable in some sensible way because as far as I can tell at the moment it isn't. As I understand it the database takes so long to load that if there are any working servers they are way out of date, and even when a server is working it can only serve a couple of users at a time which, when a XAPI query can often take minutes or hours to run is clearly not practical for serving a large community. There are also issues with the run time that the code uses - it's horrible ancient and crufty and requires various kernel security features to be turned off. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
