As Dave said - 64bit will give you the biggest boost. Mainly because you can setup massive memory allocations for the JVM. Our servers each have 8Gb of memory with 4Gb setup for the JVM.
More cores the better is the mantra, but we run 4 and 8 core servers and really don't see much different between the two in performance. I'd stick with SCSI drives if you need a lot of read/write access. And yes certain JVM upgrades can boost the speed mainly because of the bugs in earlier versions cause object creation to be very slow. How much load is your application seeing? Hard configuration and scale will be affected by your applications load. Wil Genovese One man with courage makes a majority. -Andrew Jackson A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well. On Mar 12, 2010, at 11:25 AM, John Foster wrote: > > We are looking to speed up our application layer as much as possible. We've > pumped the DB up substantially and had great results. I realize there are > network, load balancer, memcache, etc and other ways than the hardware to > have impact, but we want to buy whatever will give us some gain. > > Unfortunately, we didn't notice with a dual quad core server a ton of impact > in the past and didn't seem to be able to get the full utilization, so we > just stayed with multiple servers instead of fewer, beefier servers. > > Will 64 bit and many cores be the best for CF 9? Or less cores at higher > clock? > > Does more memory help much? > > How about SSD hard drives for local source code? I wouldn't expect that, but > somebody seemed to suggest that somewhere. > > Does CF Enterprise make a big difference? > > Should we change the JVM to a faster one? What would that be? > > > > Thanks! > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:331685 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
