Tips for caching ArcGIS Server map services faster

Tips For Speeding Up Caching ArcGIS Server Map Services

mandown — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:33:45 GMT

Users are always on the lookout for ways to speed up map caching. There are a few things that users can take into consideration when looking into speeding up caching ArcGIS Server map services. The Mapping Centre has complied a short list of some of what

re: Tips for caching ArcGIS Server map services faster

cfrye — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:08:15 GMT

Another one that I’d forgotten is to not let anyone have access to the hard disk you’re writing your cache to—for whatever reasons when others are reading, like copying large data files from that disk, the caching process becomes slower and my experience unstable. So stop sharing folders before your cache.

re: Tips for caching ArcGIS Server map services faster

jrflannery — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:57:26 GMT

Item #4 has users turning off indexing. When caching has completed should indexing be turned back on? Doesn't indexing optimize the delivery of cache tiles to the web map application?

re: Tips for caching ArcGIS Server map services faster

cfrye — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:29:08 GMT

The indexing is only for the searching capability--the web clients that fetch tiles from your server already know the path to the tile, so there's no search involved, so no need for the index.

re: Tips for caching ArcGIS Server map services faster

jbenson — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:23:25 GMT

I was confused on how to set the number of processes to two. After talking with tech support I was directed to the Create Tiles button under the Caching tab on Service Properties. A new window appears where you can set the Number of MapServer Instances (Optional). My confusion came from terminology differences between instances and processes. Anyway, I thought I would add my comment for other beginners.

re: Tips for caching ArcGIS Server map services faster

staffoc — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:26:05 GMT

Is it possible to cache one or more layers in a map service and leave others as dynamic without having two map services? I have a very large dataset that I want to use as a background layer and others that are small and need to be turned on and off.