[Tilesathome] Memcached?

[spaetz]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 08:54:29PM -0500, Ian Dees wrote:
> Spaetz, do you have enough access rights to the tah.osm.org server to
> install memcached? I'm thinking we should cache the tile images just before
> we send them to the user, and then check the cache when we get a tile
> request. Even with a 25 or 30MB cache, I imagine we could cache in memory
> some of the most-visited areas. When a tileset uploads, we could make sure
> and invalidate the cache enty for it (if it exists).
> 
> I could spend some time working on this if you have rights to install
> memcached and the python bindings.

Given that I don't own the server and that there many other services run on it (osmxapi, openaerialmap, planet extractor, plus various other things unknown to me). Plus given that I already brought the server to its knees by consuming all available RAM (and more), I'd be rather hesistant to add any other memory consuming things. Although I have sudo rights, I have never installed anything there (and wouldn't do so without getting crschmidt's explicit permission first).

Having said all this, if you think it makes sense , it might be a good thing to have. I don't know the distribution of tiles being viewed (I could give you an apache log to work that out). Feel free to ask crschmidt (the server owner and admin) what he thinks about it.

spaetz