Peter Becker or other ESRI Support Staff,
I know the original thread for this topic is 6+ months old, but I wanted to add on another issue I am having with this topic.
I too have been getting these max raster errors lately and want to follow Peter's suggestions of not increasing the number of rasters in the aftermath Image Service settings. We are still working with 9.3 and on my level, have not changed any settings. With this in mind, I have created the following scenarios which will represent my issue:
I created the same exact Image Service on two different machines. On the machine that is giving me the max rasters error, ArcGIS is outputting only 39 overview GeoTiffs in the DerivedImages\SO folder; where the machine that is creating the image service correctly, ArcGIS is outputting 419 overview GeoTiffs.
One more scenario; the machine that is not creating the correct number of overview GeoTiffs used to work just fine. I created a state wide service a year ago for Arizona 2007 NAIP which resulted in 185 overviews; and again recently with the 2010 NAIP, same tiling scheme, same resolution, but this time with only 18 overview GeoTiffs.
My question is where is the settings being changed to create the number of output rasters and how do I change this back to the 'default' or to a number that will not output this error?
Thank you ahead of time,
Karl