[OSM-dev] Nominatim's reverse geocoding statistics

[Grant Slater]

On 2 May 2012 09:43, Derick Rethans <osm at derickrethans.nl> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2012, Charles DESNEUF wrote:
>
>> And if you have an idea about what parameters (Php, Postgres, Apache ...)
>> can we play on to improve the results I'll be glad to ear it.
>
> On the PHP side. Make sure you have APC installed, and running the
> latest version of PHP (5.4.1). It uses a lot less memory, and is about
> 25-40% faster than 5.3.
>

Further... make sure you are running PHP as an apache module (aka
mod_php)* and not PHP via cgi.

*: It would also be interesting to see benchmarks for nominatim via PHP+fastcgi.

/ Grant