I tried again with the brand new Geoserver 2.8.1.  GetCoverage for the whole 
mosaic (4 images, 12000 x 12000 pixels each) was now successful. The 1.6 GB 
output GeoTIFF is good. Memory consumption during the process with 32-bit jre 
and default java settings was no more than 360 MB. It took 1 minute and 40 
seconds to get the image with curl. So far I was happy.

But there is something odd in how the service behaves.  It took whole 15 
minutes to serve the coverage with the very first time I made the GetCoverage 
reques but after that it was quite fast and I thought that everything is OK. 
But then I tested what happens if I send two 1.6 GB GetCoverages from two 
distinct curls. After 70 minutes I made a conclusion that even the process was 
still alive it was for sure all too slow for being useful and I killed curls. 
Unfortunately  even after killing the curl jobs the java.exe that runs 
Geoserver continued to use 20% of CPU and burn my hard disk. That stopped 
finally perhaps after 10 minutes.

It seems to be very unsafe to publish even a pretty small image mosaic like my 
four-image test mosaic as WCS without setting Resource Consumption Limits. 
Perhaps Geoserver should set some rather small default values for the limits 
instead of setting no limits like it does now. And if it is really so easy to 
make WCS to jam by sending many concurrent requests it might be good to mention 
the Control flow module 
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/extensions/controlflow/index.html in 
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/webadmin/services/WCS.html.

-Jukka Rahkonen-



Andrea Aime wrote:

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Rahkonen Jukka (MML) 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
 wrote:
Hi Andrea,

It is really a snapshot of 2.8, build date 2015-Oct-08.

Yep, too old, the commit where I hopefully removed the code that was making WCS 
load the data in memory
landed only 12 days ago:
https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/commit/657d79ec5a02d10ae9c5c7678c0f65881ca947fd

Can you try again?


If you read the whole source data first into memory, can’t you wait and see if 
it really fits into memory before starting to write out the tiff file?

Am I right that the amount of free java memory and the amount of data that is 
read from the source data sets the limits for the WCS? With the default policy 
“Don’t use overviews” of if there are no overviews the maximum subset for one 
coverage is always the same independently of the output resolution because it 
is the amount of input data that sets the limit, not the size of the generated 
output? With 1 m resolution you can get more data out of WCS in megabytes than 
with 20 m resolution, but the limit in square km is constant?

Honestly, I'd modify that default to allow overviews usage by default,  loading 
the data at native resolution
and subsampling it in memory is too taxing imho

Cheers
Andrea

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