Hi folks We are going to be setting up a dedicated cocoon server soon and I am trying to spec out the hardware. The operating system will be redhat (8 probably) and tomcat will be the servlet engine.
Does anyone have any experiences of what hardware balance is right for cocoon? I know this is stupid question with no concrete answer as it depends on what the server will be doing, loading, etc. etc. etc. Having said all this what balance would you go for when buying a cocoon server? Would you go for single processor (2.6ghz) machine with lots of memory (4-6gig) or a dual processor machine (2 x 2.6ghz) with less memory (2gig). My searching of the cocoon, tomcat, and FOP lists hasn't really given me any good feel for optimum hardware configuration. I'm hoping someone has some experience. The cocoon server is mainly going to be serving FOP based transformations, xml (xhtml) to PDF and xml to svg to png. As much static content as possible will be served from a dedicated apache http server so this machine will only be doing dynamic xml transformations. Some of these might get quite large, our present record is xhmtl to 206 pages of pdf. Again I appreciate that optimum hardware should be reached by careful study of what us it is going to be put to, but we are just starting out seriously on the cocoon route so don't have the experience to know exactly how it will be used. Caleb Racey Webteam University Computer Service University of Newcastle tel 0191 222 5916 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
