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Re: Advice about Tomcat on x86_64 architecture..

Titi Wangsa

2007-07-09

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we have 3 instances on the same hardware
we did this due to a memory/thread constraint
correct me if i'm mistaken, but i've read that
the more memory you allocate for you Heap, the less thread you have,
we want a lot of memory
and a lot of threads
so we opted to do 3 instances on the same hardware

On 7/10/07, Christopher Schultz <chris@(protected):
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> Prt,
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> Please do not post more than once. We forgive spelling and grammar
> mistakes. There is no reason to re-post your question with trivial changes.
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> prt wrote:
> > I have Dell PE 2950 with tow Intel xeon dual core 5130 processors.
> > I have three tomcat work in balance in mod_jk, and one Apache in front on
> > port 80.
>
> Three instances on the same piece of hardware? Why not just run a single
> instance? Load balancing doesn't get you anything when it's all on the
> same hardware.
>
> > The JVM and the tomcat that i have on the server are 32 bit architecture.
>
> :(
>
> Note that Tomcat is architecture-less. Tomcat is neither 32-bit nor
> 64-bit. Only the JVM makes these distinctions.
>
> > Is it good to do so or will be better to install 64 bit architecture JVM and
> > compile tomcat on the server ?
>
> You should definitely use a 64-bit JVM on your server. You will have
> access to much more memory and overall performance should improve
> significantly. You do not have to recompile anything. Tomcat should work
> exactly as it does today.
>
> > Thank you all for help and sorry about my English.
>
> No problem. My Hebrew would probably be horrible. ;)
>
> - -chris
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