[Tilesathome] Queue query

[Sebastian Spaeth]

Ed Loach wrote:
> Am I right in thinking that each "square" can only appear in the requests queue once?

Usually yes.

> I was wondering if for example a ChangedTileAutoRequest was in the queue and someone requested a higher priority rerender manually, would the ChangedTileAutoRequest entry in the queue be removed?

The priority would be increased if it was requested with a higher priority.

> The reason I'm wondering is that the queue seems to be growing longer

We add 1-2,000 changed tiles every 6 hours and the API is currently 
capable of satisfying between 200-300 requests per hour. Do the math :-)

The current bottleneck is not the lack of clients, it is a lack of 
successful API replies.

There are a couple of independent projects for a more performant 
read-only API but none of them is in production mode yet.

The machines need to be quite powerful to render tiles, especially if 
its complex one.

spaetz