On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 09:48:14AM -0800, riteshambastha wrote: > > I am using tilecache to read mapnik layer and generate tiles. I am using > tilecache_seed.py for achieving this. > > Since python is single threaded, with a high-end machine(16GB RAM , 8 > Processors), we are getting very low performance.
tilecache_seed.py is single threaded. There is no reason this *has* to be the case, and could easily be changed. > So, we are looking for an alternative. We are experimenting with GeoWebCache > as it supports multiple threads (java). GeoWebCache can't interact with the Mapnik Python bindings. I would recommend simply making tilecache_seed multithreaded. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users

