I would plan on some more memory. Depending on how the program was written
and the user load I would start with about 4Gig and leave a few slots for
growth. If any thing my current job has taught me is that Java uses a lot of
memory.
On Nov 19, 2007 12:02 PM, Craig White <
craig@tobyhouse.com> wrote:
> I'm looking at a very interesting CMS/Web Collaboration system called
> Alfresco
>
> www.alfresco.com
>
> That is entirely java driven and runs on Apache tomcat - of which I
> understand nothing or next to nothing (I seemingly can get Sun JDK/JRE
> packages installed but that's my knowledge of java).
>
> Anyway, with the exception of my primary infrastructure server, I am
> fairly lightweight and my anticipation is that tomcat/java/alfresco and
> some users is not going to be a small footprint and I'm thinking I'm
> gonna need a system with at least 2G of RAM, maybe more.
>
> Anyone have a guess or rule of thumb that they would use to approximate
> their needs for a server running tomcat? This would be actively used by
> perhaps 3 or 4 people doing document input/conversion and perhaps 5-10
> people retrieving html/pdf files from the resultant documents.
>
> I'm thinking that something along the lines of a 1U rack mount with dual
> Xeon's, 2 Gigabytes of RAM and 3 or 4 hard drives would probably cost in
> the neighborhood of $3K - am I thinking too lightly?
>
> Craig
>
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