On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 22:39 +0100, Sture Dingsøyr wrote: > 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
We have been testing mapserver on both linux (rhel 3.x) and windows (xp pro) for performance testing. I can't remember the exact results (someone else on our team did the actual testing) but on high end hardware (Dell dual xeon 3ghz 4gb ram) ms on linux approached 50% higher load than on windows. I'll have to check next week just how the test were done but the decision was clearly in favour of linux. I do know that neither windows or linux were optimised and the feeling was we could extend the linux performance considerably (by doing things like not running X etc). HTH, Tim Bowden -- Mapforge Geospatial Level 3/ 267 St Georges Tce Perth 6000 Western Australia
