On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 13:15 -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 09:48:14AM -0800, riteshambastha wrote:
> >
> > I am using tilecache to read mapnik layer and generate tiles. I am using
> > tilecache_seed.py for achieving this.
> >
> > Since python is single threaded, with a high-end machine(16GB RAM , 8
> > Processors), we are getting very low performance.
>
> tilecache_seed.py is single threaded. There is no reason this *has* to
> be the case, and could easily be changed.
>
> > So, we are looking for an alternative. We are experimenting with GeoWebCache
> > as it supports multiple threads (java).
>
> GeoWebCache can't interact with the Mapnik Python bindings. I would
> recommend simply making tilecache_seed multithreaded.
Does tilecache have a single python/mapnik instance? I guess it depends
on how you've configured your web server.
The Mapnik python bindings support multi-threaded calls to the render()
routines but this is a new feature in SVN from a few weeks ago.
Jon
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