[Tilesathome] Processing delays

[Dirk-Lüder Kreie]

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Robert (Jamie) Munro schrieb:

> Clients seem to still be taking hundreds of tiles from the queue and
> never processing them. We really must make sure that taking a request
> from the queue is an authenticated procedure, and people aren't allowed
> to take more than a certain number of requests until they have finished
> the ones they already have. I'd suggest starting with about 3 active
> requests allowed at any one time, but if we can make a system that lets
> clients tell the server when they had a rendering error, one at a time
> should be fine.

I currently suspect a bug in the serverside handling of requests, either
in the handing out or the bookkeeping.
Although I don't have the time for reading/testing/understanding what's
really going on.

> People who run multiple clients should be able to request higher limits
> (number of clients they run + a few spare for when rendering errors mean
> they can't complete them).

I would use about 5-13 requests with my 5 renderers for normal
operations as an educated guess.

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Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie
Bremen - 53.0952°N 8.8652°E

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