Sture -
There is no reason to think that running MapServer on Linux or Windows - given
comparable hardware - will produce different results. I have run MapServer for
several years on both platforms, and I have no reason to think one is any
better or worse than the other. You do need to think very carefully about the
hardware platform you're using, if it's not the same machine. Differences in
the disk subsystem and data storage design, as well as in the amount of
available RAM, can make very substantial differences in MapServer performance.
- Ed
Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA 01863
Phone: +1 (978) 251-4242
Fax: +1 (978) 251-1396
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-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sture
Dingsøyr
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 4:40 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Mapserver on Linux vs Windows
Hi there
We have a server running Mapserver on Linux (Red Hat 8). Is is used to generate
maps, mainly from shapefiles. But also some layers from Postgis/WMS. To do this
we use PHP and MapScrip...
We are now considering the possibility to port our solution from Linux to
Windows, mainly du to the fact that maintaining new versions of Mapserver on
Windows are quite easy with the pre-built binary package that exists for
Windows (no compiling is needed).
Does anybody have any experience on how a Mapserver solution works on Windows
compared to Linux. I am mainly thinking about speed and performance?
Does Mapserver work faster on Linux?
Regards Sture
