[Tilesathome] Questions on tile updating process

[Matthias Julius]

Andre Hinrichs <andre.hinrichs at gmx.de> writes:

> On Montag 20 April 2009, Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote:
>> Andre Hinrichs schrieb:
>> > Here are the checks it does in order:
>> > 1.) Tile has an unhandled request -> ignore
>> > 2.) Tile has an active request -> ignore
>> > 3.) Tile is empty and was recently finished -> ignore
>
> Hmm... with the short format request I cannot even see, if an empty tile was 
> recently finished. Is there a short request to get the render requests of a 
> tile? Only the status is needed: unhandled, active, finished...

The problem is that AFAIK the server does not store any information
for empty tiles.  Meta data is stored in the tileset file, but there
is no tileset file for empty tilesets.

How is the new server keeping up?  What kind of a machine is it
anyway?

Matthias