On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 03:29:03PM +0200, Paul Scott wrote: > > Has anyone used mapserver with memcached? > > What I am thinking of doing is either: > > 1. Caching resultsets from PostGIS before mapserver gets them OR > 2. Caching the actual output from mapserver with a relatively low TTL. > > Anyone done something similar? Any problems? Any successes?
I have, in the past, used memcached + TileCache to cache Mapserver data -- see http://tilecache.org/ for more information about TileCache. It's not particularly well documented, but a user came to me the other day and told me they are using it in production without problems. In general, I use disk-based storage, because it's faster than memcached until you have enough machines to make a memcached cluster reasonable, and there's more of it than memory. However, all my data 'lives forever' -- we don't have anything with high temporarl differences -- so I'm a special case. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta
