Thanks for the answers so far.<div><br></div><div>The standard map size will be 600 x 400, so given that open layers might request tiles around the visible map area, I had thought that I would be getting at least 16 tile requests per map view. Of course this doesn't take into account people panning around. Our current Google map usage is about 200,000 a day, but we can't tell from the data we have how many are panning around the maps, as Google only count the registering of the API as a hit, not how many tiles are served to the client. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Our load profile is heavily weighted to the evening rather than spread-out evenly throughout the day, so we could hit a spike of ~1,000 requests a second, which the yevaud spec seems to handle ably.</div>
<div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Paul Norman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:penorman@mac.com">penorman@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I believe the SSD is used for the database. Before the SSD the DB was on the RAID10 array. I’m not sure four 300 GB 10k RPM drives are much cheaper than a SSD.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">You might find looking through munin for yevaud helpful - <a href="http://munin.openstreetmap.org/openstreetmap/yevaud.openstreetmap/#disk" target="_blank">http://munin.openstreetmap.org/openstreetmap/yevaud.openstreetmap/#disk</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The SSD is sdd according to the wiki. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">How many tiles do you expect each map view to generate? I’d expect at least 50-100. This would give you an average of 200-500 requests/second. Just for comparison, the caches in front of yevaud peak at about 3.5k requests/second<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> John Perrin [mailto:<a href="mailto:john.d.perrin@gmail.com" target="_blank">john.d.perrin@gmail.com</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 12, 2012 2:34 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:dev@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">dev@openstreetmap.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [OSM-dev] Yevaud SSD Drive<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>
<div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I've posted this question on the OSM Q & A site a well, not sure what the best forum for the question is, so please forgive the dual post if you also follow that site.<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Basically, I was just inquiring into the specific need for the SSD drive on the yevaud tile server. I'm looking to run an OSM tile server that can handle roughly 200,000 - 400,000 map views a day and have taken this as a good benchmark for the server spec. However the SSD is half the cost of reproducing a server with that spec. I was just wondering exactly what the disk was used for, and why is specifically needed the SSD drive. I can see the purchase logged in the server upgrade history, but I can't see any reason explaining why it was needed.<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">John<u></u><u></u></p></div></div>
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