Tom Hughes-3 wrote: > > Unfortunately having to check access tokens on tile requests adds > overhead which would reduce the total number of tiles we could serve so > it would be a bit self defeating. > >From what I have seen, the limiting factor of tile serving is seldomly the actual tile serving. Mod_tile can fairly easily saturate a 1 Gbit/s network with several 10 thousands of tiles per second. (i.e. an order of magnitude greater than what tile.osm.org currently serves) The bottle neck is more likely to be disk I/O to fetch tiles or network bandwidth.
So assuming that the access token check only needs CPU resources and no disk I/O, the added overhead will possibly not have any practical effects. The question though is, what would one gain by having an access token check? A per IP limit is imho more useful. -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Paging-the-tile-server-admins-tp6308590p6309901.html Sent from the Developer Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
