Forwarded to the list since I forgot to hit reply to all. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 7:22 PM Subject: Re: [Tilesathome] Upload queue
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:02:18PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> What kind of hardware is needed? Is there a wishlist somewhere of some >> specific hardware needs for some of the ongoing projects? I have access >> to some server hardware and a stable net connection at work - nothing >> crazy like what you've been able to offer, but if there are some specific >> needs that could be filled by people like myself maybe we could reduce >> the load on hypercube. > > Right now, I'm not entirely sure what we need. I know that the disks are > too slow. Ideally, we'd have a super-fast locally connected RAID. The > ones at work are two orders of magnitude faster and an order of > magnitude bigger... but I don't have a clue what size the box actually > *is*, or what kind of hardware connections we have inside of it. > > My local hardware contact (the one who got the boxes on the first place) > is on vaccation in New Mexico building a music studio. Until he gets > back, I'm just twiddling my thumbs: but note that at the time you sent > this email, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was processing 6 times as many tilesets per > hour as it > typically did on dev. So, the fact that the queue is always full is > likely just a sign that more tilesets are actually being uploaded: > clients are doing more. This is (in part) because the tilesets are > largely 404-handler tiles, so they're less full than manually requested > ones. It may also be the result of more clients coming online: I can't > be sure. > > So, overall: the service is moving quickly. The server is processing > more than it ever has from clients. The clients are blocking more on the > server, and thats regrettable, but I'm going to work to do what I can to > improve that: right now, I dno't know what I need, but I'll let others > know as soon as I find out. > > Regards, > -- > Christopher Schmidt > MetaCarta > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.13/1170 - Release Date: > 12/4/2007 10:52 AM > > _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tilesathome
