On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 02:46:30PM +0100, Grant Slater wrote: > Serving tiles is unlikely to an expensive process. OS will cache > filesystem reads regardless.
Neither file system, nor CPU seems to be a bottleneck so far. The number of apache slots (being shared with openaerialmap and other things hosted on that box is simply being used up. > It would be better to optimise HTTP headers to improve caching (and > hence offloading the server) and also support Conditional "304 Not > Modified" HTTP Requests. I checked the apache logs and we send about 6% of all tile requests a 304 reply last week. > See how JonB solved this for the OSM Mapnik layer: Thanks for the links, will have a look. spaetz _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tilesathome
