[Gllug] squid, load balancing

[SteveC]

* @ 16/01/06 07:44:14 PM rich at annexia.org wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 01:32:28PM +0000, SteveC wrote:
> > putting stress on things. Our application (free mapping) means throwing
> > a lot of data around and we don't have the space to pre-generate tiles
> > hence squid sitting in front of apache on the tile server. 
> 
> My first thought was this: Are the tiles generated the same for each
> user, or would users get slightly different tiles if they clicked on
> the same map, to the same magnification, but a just a few pixels out?
> You might be showing a unique set of tiles to every user, which would
> mean that the caching wouldn't be helping you.  You might want to get
> Squid to print out the ratio of hits to misses to find out how
> effective it's being.

The tiles are the same for all users both in the slippy map interface
and the applet editor...

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/
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