I am using a manually installed client on windows (xp, sp3). I had read somewhere that Batik used less memory, but I don't know how they compare on speed. The inkscape issue seems to be a limitation of windows - even on machines with 4GB of RAM, inkscape will crash at about 1.3 - 1.4GB of RAM usage. I'm not sure if there's a way around this limitation (is it present in 64-bit windows?), but I am currently trying out renderstripes=5 to see if that will allow my clients to render higher complexity tiles without inkscape crashing. The crashing is a big issue - I have to check the clients constantly since inkscape throws up a dialog box when it crashes (even though it's running in command line!), which stops the client from rendering.
-Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: Ed Loach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 9:48 AM To: 'Milenko'; 'Knut Arne Bjørndal'; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Tilesathome] Using Batik Jeremy wrote: > Sorry, my fault. SVN doesn't update tilesathome.conf and I > hadn't checked > tilesathome.conf.windows to see the new options. It sounds like you've got a manually installed version of [EMAIL PROTECTED] client, and not the windows installer based one linked from the wiki? If you have got a Windows Installer based one there is code in the Windows GUI script which every time you click start to launch the tilesGen process copies the tilesathome.conf.windows settings to tilesathome.conf, only updating the few values that can be set through the GUI from the default values (username, password, proxy settings and the like). It took me a while to work out how to set MaxTilesetComplexity because of that (in the end I tweaked my copy of the GUI to have an extra input field, extra registry key and the other necessary code to update the setting when it did the others; since then I've written my own GUI front end in VB.NET with separate tabs to display the StdErr and StdOut outputs, which means I don't get the new default values from the .windows file, but can update my .conf file without it being overwritten constantly). Is there much difference between Batik and Inkscape? Is one say faster but more memory hungry? Ed _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tilesathome
