[Tilesathome] rendering timeout

[Matthias Julius]

Dirk-Lüder Kreie <osm-list at deelkar.net> writes:

> Thomas Stets schrieb:
>> I remember reading somewhere that there is a 1.5 hour timeout after which
>> a tile to be rendered is handed out to another client.
>> 
>> What does that mean for me (and my aging 2x2.0 GHz G5 PowerMac)? If a tile takes
>> several hours to render (Amterdam comes to mind, or 1238,1514, which
>> has taken the last 5 hours to render 22% of), should I just abort the job
>> and request a new tile, or should I see it through, in case everyone else will
>> need just a slong as me?
>
> This Problem is not really well explored as you see by the lack of answers.
> There are arguments for both sides (keep running or abort) and the
> Server Timeout is actually a moving target.

Maybe the client needs to talk to the server every hour to "I am still
working on it and I am at 58%." or so.

Matthias