Bruce Cheney wrote:
What are the current plans for supporting 64 bit Windows OS?
Already doing it and I missed it?
What would be reasons for not actively pursuing this?
Are some of the supporting binaries to difficult to convert over or
MapServer itself?
Is it the challenge of maintaining two paths 32 bit and 64 bit?
Bruce,
I believe MapServer and it's supporting libraries can already be
somewhat laborously built for Win64. There is no fundamental problem
with the software that would make it incompatible.
The reasons I am asking are:
Hardware and OS are coming this way now - 64 bit. We must go to some
effort to downgrade to 32 bit. The 64 bit obviously supports more RAM.
More RAM = more concurrent users. And there are probably other good
reasons that I am at a loss to remember.
Thanks for any wisdom you might have in this regards.
Honestly, a single instance of mapserver will not often make effective
use of more than 2GB of in process memory except for special activities
(like render super-tile sized images). You will however get significant
benefit from having alot of RAM on a 64bit system even if you only have
32bit mapserver's since the operating system can effectively cache more
material from disk.
Best regards,
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