Ours is an intranet business application. So no immediate money is to be expected. Any way I will stress testing of our existing development server. Thanks for the reply regards Antony ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chong Yu Meng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 6:33 PM Subject: Re: [OT] best hardware config for Tomcat
> Antony wrote: > > >Thanks for the reply. I had never thought of the RAID sub system. My > >situation is that there is no one I know to advice me in this regard and my > >company can't affod any highly paid consultancy. That is why asked a > >question like this here. > > Another question. Do Tomcat a requires a faster hard disk. The > >application uses JSP and Servlets only. No HTML pages are used and it > >generates some PDF and Excel files. It also serves some small images files > >from local hard disk. I think Tomcat will cache these images. Now my concern > >is whether Tomcat's performance increases by faster DDR RAM. > > > >regards Antony > > > > > Antony, > > The answer to your problem is not in better RAM, a faster hard drive or > even an expensive consultant. In what I consider "deep-s**t" situations > like yours, where you have little time, no money and nobody you can turn > to except yourself and the mailing list, your best bet is to deploy > quickly and try getting money in, first. Why ? Because you're never > going to have enough resources (hard drive, RAM, CPU) unless you make > enough money to justify those resources. > > For example, if I have a single-processor Pentium II 400MHz machine with > a 40GB hard drive and 128MB RAM, I would benchmark it against the number > of concurrent connections it can handle. I would then take that number > and multiply it by 10 to give me a total number of customers (in Asia > this is realistic, though I cannot say for other parts of the world). I > would calculate how much money I would make off those customers and then > see if I should : > (a) invest in more hardware (RAM, CPU, HDD) > (b) buy another server > (c) hire a consultant > (d) give myself an obscene amount of money ! > > Hope this helps ! > > Regards, > pascal chong > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
