RE: Managing concurrent high memory processes

2005-11-21 Thread BB Commish
Tomcat, you have much less control. Also, if communication has to occur back to a Tomcat user, you might consider using Java Messaging Service for this - at which point you should look at Jboss or similar application server that has Tomcat and a JMS bundled together. Hope these thoughts are usefu

RE: Managing concurrent high memory processes

2005-11-21 Thread BB Commish
Thanks Wade. I agree that the bottom line is you need the resources to support the processing. But I guess my question was whether or not the clustering/load balancing provided within tomcat was an option to consider based on others' experience with it and the fact that my resource drain is iso

Managing concurrent high memory processes

2005-11-18 Thread BB Commish
We have a Struts application running on Tomcat where a few actions within the app can invoke processing that consumes 300+ MB of RAM and can run for several hours. The issue is how to make the application more scalable to accommodate multiple concurrent 'high load' processes and also make better