[Tilesathome] xapi problem?

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 09:04:07PM +0100, Andrew McCarthy wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 11:28:55AM -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> > Occasionally (about once a week), I'll need to restart the osmxapi
> > server, which will then interrupt the download process and give you
> > files that don't have a closing <osm> tag. Recently, this happened once
> > yesterday, and several times over the weekend due to the various issues
> > with the NFS mount that hosts MySQL for t at h. 
> > 
> > Additionally, osmxapi has a two hour timeout, so if your request takes
> > two hours and doesn't do anything, it will kill the connection.
> > 
> > I do not know if either of these explains your problem.
> 
> I don't think so, I'm afraid. This was happening today (and still seems
> to be happening now, from home), and the failed requests were finishing
> in under 30 seconds. Whether it works or not changes from moment to
> moment. The results of this are clearly visible in this map, where the
> coastline is missing in some squares, roads and names missing in others.
> 	http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Browse/?x=122&y=84&z=8&layer=tile
> 
> Is it possible that the server is simply heavily loaded and dropping the
> request after it sends out the header, but before it has the data ready?

Not from the Apache end. Any other answer will need to come from
etienne.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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