Allow to use workers for transforming cartocss into mapnik XML

config/environments/development.js.example

@@ -111,6 +111,10 @@ var config = {
           // Important: check the configuration of uv_threadpool_size to use suitable value
           poolSize: 8,
 
+          // Whether grainstore will use a child process or not to transform CartoCSS into Mapnik XML.
+          // This will prevent blocking the main thread.
+          useCartocssWorkers: false,
+
           // Metatile is the number of tiles-per-side that are going
           // to be rendered at once. If all of them will be requested
           // we'd have saved time. If only one will be used, we'd have

config/environments/production.js.example

@@ -105,6 +105,10 @@ var config = {
           // Important: check the configuration of uv_threadpool_size to use suitable value
           poolSize: 8,
 
+          // Whether grainstore will use a child process or not to transform CartoCSS into Mapnik XML.
+          // This will prevent blocking the main thread.
+          useCartocssWorkers: false,
+
           // Metatile is the number of tiles-per-side that are going
           // to be rendered at once. If all of them will be requested
           // we'd have saved time. If only one will be used, we'd have

config/environments/staging.js.example

@@ -105,6 +105,10 @@ var config = {
           // Important: check the configuration of uv_threadpool_size to use suitable value
           poolSize: 8,
 
+          // Whether grainstore will use a child process or not to transform CartoCSS into Mapnik XML.
+          // This will prevent blocking the main thread.
+          useCartocssWorkers: false,
+
           // Metatile is the number of tiles-per-side that are going
           // to be rendered at once. If all of them will be requested
           // we'd have saved time. If only one will be used, we'd have

config/environments/test.js.example

@@ -104,6 +104,10 @@ var config = {
           // Important: check the configuration of uv_threadpool_size to use suitable value
           poolSize: 8,
 
+          // Whether grainstore will use a child process or not to transform CartoCSS into Mapnik XML.
+          // This will prevent blocking the main thread.
+          useCartocssWorkers: false,
+
           // Metatile is the number of tiles-per-side that are going
           // to be rendered at once. If all of them will be requested
           // we'd have saved time. If only one will be used, we'd have

lib/cartodb/server_options.js

@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ module.exports = {
         },
         datasource: global.environment.postgres,
         cachedir: global.environment.millstone.cache_basedir,
+        use_workers: rendererConfig.mapnik.useCartocssWorkers || false,
         mapnik_version: global.environment.mapnik_version,
         mapnik_tile_format: global.environment.mapnik_tile_format || 'png',
         default_layergroup_ttl: global.environment.mapConfigTTL || 7200

package.json

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
     "step-profiler": "~0.3.0",
     "turbo-carto": "0.18.0",
     "underscore": "~1.6.0",
-    "windshaft": "2.6.2",
+    "windshaft": "2.6.3",
     "yargs": "~5.0.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {