Consider a low-loaded tile server. The actions of the users might be to:
One idea might be to put the tiles in the queue that are next to the current meta tile (8 pieces - but this case might be already covered by the meta-tile technique) and the meta tile in the next zoom level at the current map position. What is the starting point to implement such kind of pre-rendering in Tirex? asked 04 Nov '12, 20:38  AddisMap_Ale... edited 04 Nov '12, 20:38 |
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You can not implement this in Tirex alone, because requests to existing tiles are handled by mod-tile and never reach Tirex. So you would have to change mod_tile. You could probably change mod-tile to send low priority rendering requests for the next zoom level in addition to the high priority request for the current zoom level. But I think this is a bad idea. Chances are you'll do more harm than good. A typical scenario is this: User looks at zoom level n, your setup will calculate tiles for same position at n+1. User pans over a bit and zooms in. All renderers are now blocked with rendering what was requested before and can't render what the user actually wants to look at. Tirex promotes low-priority jobs if a high-priority job for the same tile comes in and it can reserve renderers for high-priority jobs, so maybe it can actually work. But there would still be contention for CPU, database access etc. so I don't believe it would be worth it. answered 05 Nov '12, 07:57  Jochen Topf edited 05 Nov '12, 13:25 |
Concerning the scenario: When the user zooms in, I was hoping that this new high-prio renderings are rendered before the queued low-prior renderings.
Yes, if they are only queued. But if they have already started rendering, they keep rendering till they are finished. And your scenario only makes sense if they often start rendering immediately. If they end up sitting in the queue for a long time anyway, why bother with your scheme?
It could work, but it'd need more smarts :
Maybe could be implemented with a low-priority, low-TTL queue ? Remove job from the low queue if it is added in the high queue. And make sure that you have a lot of workers. Not such a low-haging-fruit improvement, but worth experimenting with.
I updated my answer based on the comment from Vincent de Phily, because Tirex can actually do the things he requests.