I am currently trying to render Water (3,198,333 records) and detailed world borders (processed_p) for the world. I am successful in rendering both layers, but I am not happy with performance.
My current setup is as follows:
- Amazon EC2 instance (m2.2xlarge)
- 34.2 GB of memory
- 13 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 3.25 EC2 Compute Units each)
- 850 GB of instance storage
- 64-bit platform
- I/O Performance: High
- Mapnik, 4 threads
- Postgresql settings based on these benchmarks
- GiST index in place for all of my layers
Some of my Ideas to Increase Performance:
- Simplifying my features
- Don't render water tiles - when loading with openlayers can set load failure to blue color
- Split world water features into various sections and explicitly tell mapnik its bounds. For example, if I split water features from North America, when Mapnik is generating tiles for Australia it should not query North America to see if any of its features are in the tiles.
- My second idea is a bit more crazy. Since Mapnik performs a spatial query for each tile in order to find features to process, I can perform this query beforehand for all of my layers. I would assume that this would save some processing power.
My Question: What else can I do to optimize tile rendering?
