[OSM-talk] API Stalement

[Etienne]

What kind of algorithm is being used that is non-linear?

Having got all the segments within a bbox it should be a very simple
matter to collect all the ways that contain any of the segments.  I
assume there is an index for this.

Etienne

On 6/8/06, Immanuel Scholz <immanuel.scholz at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> > What happens on the server if an API call fails?  Does it try to close
> > the connection?  Does it log anything anywhere?  Can anyone see those
> > logs?
>
> Steve mentioned memory shortage before. If this is the case, you usually
> don't see much in the logs. Other problems are that the data collection
> can just take a very long time. For the current algorithm, the processing
> time increases more than linear with the number of nodes and segments to
> be delivered (only a problem for larger requests). This, combined with
> memory shortage can lead to swap activity, which lead to times like "2
> days" to complete the request.
>
>
> It is not uncommon that connections does not get resetted in case of
> errors (although it would be good if they were, of course), especally
> things like out of memory.
>
>
> Ciao, Imi
>
>
>
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