On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 13:09 -0400, Freeman, Aleda (EEA) wrote:
> In MassGIS' case we have rasters loaded in SDE, with pyramids and
> statistics.  
> I don't think that counts as tiled right? 
every pyramid level in SDE raster is tiled, so yeah, I think we'll be on
the well performing side of the fence when it comes to data origin.

Cheers,
Gabriel
> Hoping that this analysis will cover SDE situation as well? 
> 
> 
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> Justin Deoliveira
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 12:31 PM
> To: Andrea Aime
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Geoserver-devel] Implementing WCS limits
> 
> 
> 
> Obviously i am a novice when it comes to raster stuff but this sounds
> reasonable. It sounds like the approach is to play it safe by imposing
> some reasonable limits based on heuristics, but at the same time
> leaving the admin the ability to change or forgo them in cases where
> they have ensured the data is properly set up for streaming/tiling. 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>         Hi,
>         this week I'm going to try and impleemnt some WCS limits
>         for people that want to serve big amounts of raster data
>         without the headache of a user hitting the server hard with
>         a very large request.
>         
>         Generally speaking we want to avoid that:
>         - the request ends up reading too much data (e.g., we don't
>           want a user to make a request that will make the server
>           read  10TB of data)
>         - the request ends up using too much memory
>         - the request ends up generating a too large response (e.g.,
>           again, we don't want the server to generate a 10GB response)
>         
>         Providing a general solution to the problem can be very
>         complex:
>         * a tiled data source may allow to streaming read by tiles,
>           allowing for small memory usage while still reading a
>           truckload of data
>         * a tiled output format can ensure nowhere in the chain
>           the whole image is composed in memory
>         * however, a non tiled input or a non tiled output will at
>           some point make the image be built fully in memory
>         * where and when is difficult to say, e.g., we might read
>           a small amount of data from the input and then build a
>           huge raster in memory because the user is supersampling
>           (asking a higher than native resolution) and the output
>           format is not tile enabled
>         * the MB read during input and output are again difficult
>           to control because of format and compression differences
>         * the WCS right now does not use overviews, but it might in
>           the future
>         Long story short, trying to control the actual amount of data
>         read, kept in memory and generated in output is beyond our
>         reach.
>         
>         What I'm going to propose is a simplified compromise based
>         on a worst case scenario.
>         We allow the administrator to setup a maximum of MB to be
>         read, and a maximum MB to be generated in output.
>         The measure in MB is computed as an equivalent single tile,
>         uncompressed situation (assuming everything has to be
>         read or generated in one shot):
>         width * height * bands * band_size
>         
>         This simplifying assumption ensures we are not going to
>         ever have more than the limits be read, kept in memory
>         or generated: normally (hopefully) we'll actually have
>         less.
>         
>         The distinction between input and output is there because
>         normally WCS request perform some resampling and generate
>         inputs at a resolution different than the outputs, and
>         in some setups the admin can play on the difference to
>         relax at least the input limits.
>         In particular, if the admin can ensure all rasterv sources
>         are tiled, it's possible to relax the input limits as
>         the tiled sources will never load the full data in memory,
>         and the WCS processing chain ensures that at worst the
>         data is recomposed in a single tile if the output format
>         cannot deal with inner tiling.
>         Even in a setup where all the sources are tiled and the output
>         format list has been somehow modified to allow only tiling
>         formats
>         (atm, only geotiff) it would still be good to setup some
>         (large) limits to avoid disk or network flooding for long
>         amounts
>         of time.
>         
>         Let's make an  example. If we set a 200MB of limit as input,
>         and 20MB of limit as output, then following will be considered
>         valid:
>         * a request that makes GS read a 14481x14481 portion of a
>           8bit single band raster data
>         * a request that makes GS read a 7240x7240 portion of a RGBA
>           (or other 4 band) image
>         * a request that makes GS generate a 4579*4579 8bit raster in
>           output
>         * a request that makes GS generate a 2290*2290 4byte raster in
>           output (RGBA, or a single band, floating point, double
>         precision
>           one).
>         
>         This should give the administrator some control and safety
>         without
>         forcing us to consider all the possibilities of formats,
>         compressions,
>         and tiling arrangements. Using equivalent MB also summarizes
>         well the
>         many possible setups of width, height, bands and band sizes in
>         a single
>         number that can be setup WCS wide and provide peace of mind to
>         the
>         administrator (and stability to the server)
>         
>         Opinions?
>         
>         Cheers
>         Andrea
>         
>         --
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