[Tilesathome] Request Priorities now sent to the client

Patrick Kilian osm at petschge.de
Tue Oct 14 17:26:12 BST 2008


Hi,

>> 1) The server sends the request priority to clients now. The idea was
>> that the client can then decide whether to fetch from the live API
>> (interactive PRIO 1 requests) or from one of the read-only mirrors
>> (changed tiles requests and bulk requests).
> 
> Is this actually necessary?  If the mirrors are only a few minutes
> behind the main API the tah server could just make sure every request
> has sat at least for 5 min in the queue before handing it out.
I don't know if it is necessary. But it is simple to do and I have it
already implemented. It should take some load from the main API without
reducing the possibility to get a very fast visual confirmation that you
did not just flood you hometown.


Patrick "Petschge" Kilian





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