There is also the issue of Apache not recommended for production use on Win32, at least it was the last time i checked....
On 3/4/06, tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
