Hi Patrick,
How many files are we dealing with before it crashes? 
Nicolas

> Le 27 nov. 2019 à 22:35, Patrick Dunford <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> the issue is not with the performance drawing the raster, it is with the 
> system only being able to have a certain number of file based rasters loaded 
> in a project before it will crash.
> 
> On 22/11/19 11:08 AM, Alexandre Neto wrote:
>> AFAIK,
>> 
>> WMST creates pyramids in cache as needed, hence it may do a better balance 
>> between disk usage and performance. You can control the number of pyramid 
>> layers you create and the compression format of it to save some space. But 
>> having raster files with 4000x4000 pixels with no pyramids will make a full 
>> read of the raster file to show even only a bit of it... That will make QGIS 
>> performance really poor.
>> 
>> Thereºs this blog post from 2010 that does some comparison between several 
>> formats and their sizes and performances. It's in portuguese, but I think 
>> you can find ways of translating it.
>> 
>> 
>> https://blog.viasig.com/2010/01/mosaicos-de-imagens-em-mapserver-com-gdal/
>> 
>> Hope it helps
>> 
>> Alexandre Neto
>> 
>> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 2:05 PM Patrick Dunford <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> Building pyramids gobbles up heaps of disk space. I tried pyramids on 157 
>>> MB layer, which created an extra file 1.6 GiB.
>>> 
>>> I can't see the WMTS building lots of temporary file pyramids using up disk
>>> 
>>> On 18/11/19 10:50 PM, Alexandre Neto wrote:
>>>> Hi Patrick,
>>>> 
>>>> Sorry for asking, did you create pyramids (overlays) for your raster 
>>>> "tiles"?
>>>> 
>>>> See more information about pyramids on QGIS official documentation:
>>>> 
>>>> https://docs.qgis.org/3.4/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_raster/raster_properties.html#pyramids-properties
>>>> 
>>>> To create pyramids on many files, it's probably better to use GDAL 
>>>> directly to process all files in a folder:
>>>> 
>>>> https://gdal.org/programs/gdaladdo.html
>>>> 
>>>> My feeling is that the WMS service is doing that for you, and that's the 
>>>> reason why it works well with a service.
>>>> 
>>>> Alexandre Neto
>>>> QGIS Support
>>>> www.qcooperative.net
>>>> 
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