[OSM-dev] Improvement of tile rendering

[Matt Amos]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Stefan de Konink <stefan at konink.de> wrote:
> Dane Springmeyer wrote:
>> I should stress though that Mod_tile is the optimal solution for tile
>> rendering for most OSM related purposes.
>
> I wonder if an Apache module is able to provide caching. I doubt it can,
> thus requires more bandwidth right?

mod_tile caches meta tiles on disk, so might require a little extra
disk bandwidth depending on how well your OS can manage its block
cache.

cheers,

matt