few "fat" contexts of many "lean" contexts?

2006-06-07 Thread Javier Gonzalez
Hi, I'm running a tomcat that provides services for a lot of clients. Each "client" one has a number of services (via axis) on their "own" context. Now I'm migratingto a bigger machine, and I got the doubt: is it better (for performance) to "group as many services as possible by context", or hav

Re: few "fat" contexts of many "lean" contexts?

2006-06-07 Thread Tim Funk
From a performance point of view - it doesn't matter. From a maintenaince point of view - I prefer many lean clients. That way - if one of them behaves badly - off they go into a new JVM (assuming you have apache in front of tomcat) -Tim Javier Gonzalez wrote: Hi, I'm running a tomcat

Re: few "fat" contexts of many "lean" contexts?

2006-06-09 Thread Javier Gonzalez
Actually, I don't - this server provides web services only and *very small* set of reports pages, so going through the hassle of setting up Apache in front of tomcat wasn't deemed to be worth it. It doesn't have any impact on performance? I would have thought that multiple contexts would eventual

Re: few "fat" contexts of many "lean" contexts?

2006-06-09 Thread Tim Funk
Duplicate libraries wasting some extra memory is a tiny penalty compared to being trapped, unable to upgrade web service when another service relies on the same library(and is incompatible with newer versions). (Or replace service with webapp) -Tim Javier Gonzalez wrote: Actually, I don't