On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 06:45:16PM +0200, Jiri Klement wrote: > > * Will tile download be done with PHP (has this been covered in > > the benchmarks - compare executing PHP code to extract data from > > a large tile with having Apache load the tile directly), or > > will we have an Apache module for that? > > What about CGI script? It should be much simpler than apache module > and it will have access to sendfile() (zero copy), so it should be > almost as fast as loading files directly by Apache.
Zero copy will gain you nothing. The server does not starve the CPU but
the disk i/o - so copying around the data comes for free.
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