[mapserver-users] Comparing cgi and fcgi for serving aerial images

I made some tests by letting JMeter run a few thousand WMS GetMap requests with varying BBOX and WIDTH and HEIGHT parameter. I tested three alternatives: MS4W 2.2.8 and Mapserver 5.2.1 MS4W 3.0 beta 7 and Mapserver 5.6.0 as cgi MS4W 3.0 beta 7 and Mapserver 5.6.0 a fcgi Server is Windows 2003

Re: [mapserver-users] Comparing cgi and fcgi for serving aerial images

It's hard to give a definite answer without seeing your actual setup, mapfile, data, etc. However, as a general rule, you will gain from using fastcgi only once you get to the point where the processing time for each request (to read data and render the map) becomes close to or smaller than