For those of you using virtual servers, how much CPU/RAM are you allocating to run your CF applications?
The IT department says we don't need more power because, statistically (according to the VM tools), we don't need it. However, it is my believe the apps will run much faster and CF/Java will be able do a better job of maintaining memory used by the JVM. Overall, our applications are running quite well with our current config (2 CPUs & 5 GB of RAM), but the occasional long running report, or heavy lifting scheduled page will consume too much of the available memory bringing a server to its knees. Of course, we can always go back and optimize code, but at some point you reach a point of diminishing returns. Focusing our programming resources on less than 0.1% of the code... wouldn't it just be less expensive to throw some (virtually free) additional processing power at the problem. How can that possibly hurt the situation? We have searched around and haven't found any VM/CF related articles or blogs to support our case. Any ideas, advise, or experience out there? Thanks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:350698 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
