[Tilesathome] Dissappearing tiles.

[Brent Easton]

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On 2/11/2007 at 12:46 PM spaetz  wrote:

>> That's even worse - every request is being processed correctly multiple
>times, then being thrown away.
>
>They are not being thrown away, they will still be uploaded once they get
>a slot in the upload queue.

Sloppy language on my part, sorry.

Technically you are correct, but in reality, what is happening is that 1 tile request is being processed in full by up to 6 different clients, with each of the later 5 overwriting the first to finally upload get an upload slot, so essentially, the first 5 attempts are being 'thrown away'. 

Such a waste of processing power. Perhaps at times like these, it would be a good idea to throttle back the number of requests being given out to try and bring the upload queue under control?
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Brent Easton                       
Analyst/Programmer                               
University of Western Sydney                                   
Email: b.easton at uws.edu.au