>> Yes, i already adopted it for out multi-style-environment on cassini and
>> placed it at [1], but on cassini it was very slow with this much styles.
> 
> Do you know what the bottle neck was? Was it DB access to generate the 
> list of tiles, cpu speed running the ruby script, or filesystem 
> performance to touch a huge number of files?
I guess it was the filesystem, because the script only queries the DB 
once, no matter how much styles you'll expire.

 > Presumably ptolemy is
> running a different filesystem, so the latter might behave quite 
> differently. At first we can just touch the global planet-import 
> timestamp though every couple of days expiring all tiles at once while 
> we get everything else running reliably. I suspect there are still some 
> optimizations possible that might be sufficient, but we will need to see 
> what performance is like on ptolemy first.
Yay, we'll to this. Maybe it would be enough to touch the lower 4 or 5 
zoom levels on a per-minute or per-5-minute basis and leave the rest for 
a weekly expire-all event.

Peter

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