MapGuide, logs and multiple users

In MapGuide 2010, enhanced logging was made available. The MapGuide WIki has the full set of details, but here's my summary.  There's a new section in serverconfig.ini: LogsDetail, in the General Properties.  For reference, here's the descriptive section:

What does this all mean? 

• You can extract a lot more detail about use, errors, and what is going on inside your MapGuide site.
• You stand a chance of filling your drive with logs (up to 100 mb/hr is possible at level 3)
• You can tie usage to users, bringing me to the second part of this post. (depending on how you have logons set up, they may or may not be anonymous users)

MapGuide in a multiple processor/core environment is relatively lightweight when not being called upon.  However, depending on the implementation of the site (lots of layers, imagery at all scale ranges, etc), users sometimes will complain of slow performance.  The admin will go to the task manager, and lo, with just that user, CPU usage overall is low.  This is becuase Mapguide assigns each user to a thread, and each thread to a CPU or processor.  This is great for sites with many users.  If you want to maximize performance for a small user base, you'll be better off following good practices as if you were expecting a large number of concurrent users, rather than expecting to leverage all cores at once.

Comments

[Bill]

Yeah, autodesk doesn't support Mac 10.6, so the the multiple users above all have to be Windows users. I will repeat my post somewhere else, there is no working plugin for Mac 10.6.4 for either Safari or Firefox. And no support to this point on the web site, and nobody to e-mail for the answer.

Nate or Katie, can you tell me a mapping program similair (a competitor) that works with Mac, I can then propose to Pinellas County to switch to that instead of the GIS Viewer. Thanks.

Or, can you tell me if this plugin exists and where to find it? The 10.4 Safari plugin doesn't work at all.

[Nate]

Hi Bill,
There are a number of counties that are on Mapguide 6.5, the predecessor to MapGuide Enterprise, and I think Pinellas County is one of them. Most are in the process of migrating to something newer, such as Mapguide Enterprise, which is much better about platform neutrality. You might suggest that, or there are numerous other server based or even tools that leverage web mapping APIs such as that of Google Maps.