[OSM-dev] Re: New renderer... move to Ruby/rmagick?

[SteveC]

* @ 16/05/06 11:54:26 PM nick at nickhill.co.uk wrote:
> SteveC wrote:
> >* @ 16/05/06 02:44:39 PM nick at nickhill.co.uk wrote:
> >>>SteveC wrote:
> >>>So, wait a year and all the computers are twice as powerful :-).
> >>Wait a year, and we get 10 times as much traffic.
> >Doesn't imply 10 times the CPU use though :-)
> 
> Why?
> 
> I would have thought the CPU load is linear with number of requests 
> (assuming similar requests and therefore traffic). Am I misunderstanding?

For example 10 times the number of tiles requested does not mean it's
geenrated 10 times more, it means it's grabbed from the cache 10 times
more.

have fun,

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