[OSM-dev] API 0.7 brainstorming

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On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Shaun McDonald
<shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk>wrote:

>
> On 30 Dec 2010, at 18:25, Wyo wrote:
>
> > Shaun McDonald wrote:
> >>
> >> So far there hasn't been any great ideas as to why we would need to
> implement
> >> a new API version.
> >
> > Well as far as the current brainstorming goes you might be right. Yet I'd
> like to filter data on the modification timestamp (e.g. only data after a
> certain timestamp). I can imagine that this could reduce the load on the
> XAPI server.
>
> That is something that a third party service should be doing since it could
> be kept pretty much up to date (within a a matter of minutes) with the
> minutely diffs. If the XAPI servers are not able to cope then maybe XAPI
> needs to be re-written to be more efficient such that it can cope with the
> demand.
>

The XAPI servers cope very well.  The problem is just insufficient
hardware.  The main XAPI instance runs on a single core processor with just
4GB of memory.
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