Me again.. I finally had some time to benchmark the mapserver and was shocked when I saw the results ;-) Using the newest mapserver, fastcgi with lighttpd (with apache and normal CGI it's even slower), PNG as output format, three layers (the whole African continent) from PostGIS and truetype fonts I came to only 3.9 requests/s.. That is damn slow, isn't it? Ok, the server has only 2GHz and 512MB of RAM but there's nothing else running on it.
I don't know what I could optimize further.. Any ideas? Thank you Pascal
