Dane, When will paleoserver be able to be used in a production environment?
Thanks, John On 10/30/10, John Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > I noticed in the FOSS4G benchmark, or "WMS Shootout" tests that > Mapnik/paleoserver did quite well. In the below email you mentioned > that you were also going to test Mapnik/WMS implementation from > Geofabrik (mod_mapnik_wms), but I did not notice any mention of > results from mod_mapnik_wms. > Also how would the not reprojected vector rendering performance of WMS > Mapnik/paleoserver compare to the the protocol that openstreetmap.org > uses? > > Thanks, > > John > > On 7/30/10, Dane Springmeyer <[email protected]> wrote: >> Just a reminder that I've stepped up to put mapnik through the paces in >> the >> FOSS4G benchmark, or "WMS Shootout". >> >> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Benchmarking_2010 >> >> This is a friendly competition, and in past years has resulted in many >> new >> fixes and code innovations for the MapServer and GeoServer teams that >> have >> competed. They also seemed to create a good vibe of collaboration, which >> I >> admired. >> >> I figured it would benefit the Mapnik project to go through the same >> process >> and learn from the comparison. My work on projection code optimization >> came >> from my first week testing >> (https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/mapnik-devel/2010-July/001199.html). >> Basically I knew that the WMS load tests that will be placed on mapnik >> will >> be numerous and I wanted to see whether requests/sec increased >> significantly >> if the server was run with more potential threads. I found that it >> didn't, >> until I removed and fixed up some of the thread safety code around proj4. >> >> Anyway, if you are interested in helping test, supporting on any other >> level, or have questions, just get in touch. >> >> In the coming weeks the actual benchmarking server will finish being set >> fully up with the same data and styles to be run against each software >> teams >> builds. The WMS spec was chosen as a reasonable way to load a server with >> random bounding box requests to test raw rendering speed under different >> styling scenarios. I plan to test both the newly released WMS >> implementation >> from Geofabrik (mod_mapnik_wms)[1] and a yet-un-released >> boost::asio-based >> server I have been working on (aka. paleoserver). For those that are >> interested all the styles and scripts I create along the way will be >> available in the osgeo svn [3]. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Dane >> >> >> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mod_mapnik_wms >> [2] http://github.com/springmeyer/paleoserver >> [3] http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/benchmarking >> _______________________________________________ >> Mapnik-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users >> > > > -- > John J. Mitchell > -- John J. Mitchell _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
