Why was tomcat chosen as a platform for DSpace?

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Hilton Gibson <[email protected]> wrote:
>  See attached.
> We started with a VM which had 2GB memory.
> Then added 2GB to the VM, no luck.
> Then luckily we had funds to buy a server.
> So now we have 12GB RAM and 12CPU's. No crashes so far.
> Using the XMLUI.
> Does DSpace really need this and what happens when we go to one million
> items ??
>
> Cheers
>
> hg
>
> On 29/09/2010 11:09, Tom De Mulder wrote:
>>
>> On 24 Sep 2010, at 21:17, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>> We've been experiencing problems similar to some reported on this thread
>>> since our
>>> upgrade to 1.6 several months ago.  We're still using the jspui, and
>>> we've wondered
>>> (among other things) if some of these problems might be alleviated by a
>>> switch to
>>> the xmlui.  Has anybody had any experience comparing the memory footprint
>>> and/or resource
>>> usage issues between the two interfaces?
>>
>> We load-tested the XMLUI (on identical hardware) and it was even worse. It
>> ran out of memory and crashed really quickly, so we never took it into
>> production. But your mileage may vary.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> --
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