On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Chris Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > Steve > > That saves some work, but how long would you expect one that size to load? > I have just realised (admittedly not looked at the data for a couple of > years) that it is actually 170,000 records - takes about 20 secs to load - > sound reasonable?
What does "to load" mean? Is 20 seconds the time elapsed from when the user clicks on the browser to when the user sees the resulting image? You are ripping through 170K features and creating an image. 20 seconds seems like a lot. How big and complicated are those features? How big is the shapefile, in physical size (MB, KB). What kind of computer are you using? What other processes are running? So many variables... in any case, if you have a web app, and you want your users to remain interested in it, you probably will want to bring down the time "to load" to sub-second, or, at the most a few seconds. You will also want to consider multiple users -- acceptable performance with one user might translate into horrendous performance with several concurrent users. > > Chris > > On 2 September 2010 20:50, Lime, Steve D (DNR) <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> That’s not that big a dataset. Probably faster from a local shapefile. >> >> >> >> Steve >> >> >> >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Jackson >> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 2:29 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [mapserver-users] Display performance >> >> >> >> Hi >> >> I wondered if anyone knew if displaying a 50,000 polygon dataset would be >> significantly faster if called from a database rather than a spatially >> indexed shapefile, or is it a similar overhead for both. >> Thanks >> Chris > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
