Re: Multiple instances of Tomcat 7.0 on one server

2013-07-22 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 To whom it mat concern, On 7/19/13 1:37 PM, Tomcat Random wrote: We currently are setting a site that receives fairly heavy traffic (5000 simultaneous users). We have two physical servers. As a general idea, is there performance to be gained

Re: Multiple instances of Tomcat 7.0 on one server

2013-07-22 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Leon, On 7/19/13 3:48 PM, Leon Rosenberg wrote: * you have multiple physical resources your app can't use properly. For example if you could give each instance its own database or its own file system. Related: if you are running on a 32-bit OS,

Multiple instances of Tomcat 7.0 on one server

2013-07-19 Thread Tomcat Random
We currently are setting a site that receives fairly heavy traffic (5000 simultaneous users). We have two physical servers. As a general idea, is there performance to be gained by running multiple instances of Tomcat 7.0? For example, two instances on one physical server and two instances on the

Re: Multiple instances of Tomcat 7.0 on one server

2013-07-19 Thread Leon Rosenberg
Hello Mr. Random, as usual there is no easy answer here. I think the most correct answer would be RATHER NOT. There is rather no performance to be gained but running multiple instances of the same app in multiple tomcats on the same physical machine except for: * you need a lot of heap per