I have been wondering if there is any documentation about the influence of multiple CPU’s and memory requirements to improve the speed of the generation of maps in the MapSuite Web edition. We are looking to buy a new server and would like to understand if this has any influence.
Mostly we are loading relative big shape files so I’m not sure where the bottleneck is.
Clint,
I don’t have a comprehensive test for which part contributes most for the performance, but if I have a chance to set up a web server, I will buy a fast disk first. As first, getting data takes many I/O operations which are relatively slow; also as the image tiles can be cached on the disk, which means I don’t need to draw the data on the fly, instead just get the tiled image from the cache. A good fast disk is more valuable for that.
The Memory and CPU will not affect the performance too much; I think a mainstream quad-core CPU and 8G memory will be fine. Sure if the budget is enough, I will buy a better CPU, more memory … better stuff will always help:)
Ben