Re: multiple instances on a server

2010-08-30 Thread Rainer Frey
On Saturday 28 August 2010 00:11:11 Rainer Jung wrote: > On 27.08.2010 21:58, Wesley Acheson wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Pid wrote: > >> On 27/08/2010 18:51, Wesley Acheson wrote: > >>> I think the reason for doing this in ruby is that ruby is single > >>> threaded, I've been told.

Re: multiple instances on a server

2010-08-27 Thread Rainer Jung
On 27.08.2010 21:58, Wesley Acheson wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Pid wrote: On 27/08/2010 18:51, Wesley Acheson wrote: I think the reason for doing this in ruby is that ruby is single threaded, I've been told. The JVM isn't. I'm raising an eyebrow. Huh? Adding unqualified rum

Re: multiple instances on a server

2010-08-27 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ahmed, On 8/27/2010 12:57 PM, S Ahmed wrote: > If you have a server with 15 GB of ram (or any large number for arguments > sake), does it ever make sense to run multiple instances of tomcat on the > same server? (serving http requests for the same we

Re: multiple instances on a server

2010-08-27 Thread Wesley Acheson
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Pid wrote: > On 27/08/2010 18:51, Wesley Acheson wrote: >> I think the reason for doing this in ruby is that ruby is single >> threaded, I've been told. The JVM isn't. > > I'm raising an eyebrow. > Huh?

Re: multiple instances on a server

2010-08-27 Thread Pid
On 27/08/2010 18:51, Wesley Acheson wrote: > I think the reason for doing this in ruby is that ruby is single > threaded, I've been told. The JVM isn't. I'm raising an eyebrow. > This is of course muddied with Jruby. > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3086467/confused-are-languages-like-

RE: multiple instances on a server

2010-08-27 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Wesley Acheson [mailto:wesley.ache...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: multiple instances on a server > I believe that they'll both end up running in the same JVM > also but again could be wrong. No, separate Tomcat instances would run in separate JVM instances (processes).

Re: multiple instances on a server

2010-08-27 Thread Wesley Acheson
I think the reason for doing this in ruby is that ruby is single threaded, I've been told. The JVM isn't. This is of course muddied with Jruby. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3086467/confused-are-languages-like-python-ruby-single-threaded-unlike-say-java-for Anyway I don't see any reason

RE: multiple instances on a server

2010-08-27 Thread Jeffrey Janner
The only reasons I have ever come up with are all operations-related, not techincal. For example, different maintenance windows requirements get different Tomcat instances. > -Original Message- > From: S Ahmed [mailto:sahmed1...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 11:57 AM > To: use

Re: multiple instances on a server

2010-08-27 Thread Pid
On 27/08/2010 17:57, S Ahmed wrote: > Hi, > > If you have a server with 15 GB of ram (or any large number for arguments > sake), does it ever make sense to run multiple instances of tomcat on the > same server? (serving http requests for the same web application) If you have a 64bit JVM, probabl