[Tilesathome] Upload queue

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 04:56:49PM -0500, milenko at king-nerd.com wrote:
> What's been going on with the upload queue the last couple days?  Seems it's pretty well maxed out most of the time.  I've noticed my clients sitting at 600 seconds several times recently.

Depending on the type of tiles being uploaded, the upload processing is
slower per tileset than it has been in the past. This is usually the
case when a large number of the tiles are blanks: because of the 404
handler, the databases that handle things like blank tiles and metatiles
are growing larger than they have been in the past, which makes
inserting into them slower. Essentially, the more of the world that t at h
knows about, the slower that processing of uploads will become.

Additionally, the server that hosts t at h also hosts a number of other
projects, and as such, there is some cross effect due to hardware
limitations. There is effort being made to get more hardware to
distribute these services onto, but this affects things as well.

However, for the most part it just seems like the number of total tiles
that t at h knwos about is growing, and as it grows, processing gets
slower. 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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