Re: two instances of Tomcat in same machine

2012-05-16 Thread André Warnier
Miguel Gonzalez wrote: Just wondering. With a 64 bits OS, how much RAM can you handle in a JVMand therefore with each instance of Tomcat? For a 12 Gb of RAM machine, it would be wise if you want to have this kind of setup (Apache and two Tomcat instances in the same machine) if you need more

Re: two instances of Tomcat in same machine

2012-05-16 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
there wasn't a limit of 32 bits OS for running JVM for more than 1.5 Gb? Regards, Miguel De: André Warnier a...@ice-sa.com Para: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Enviado: Miércoles 16 de Mayo de 2012 11:50 Asunto: Re: two instances of Tomcat in same

Re: two instances of Tomcat in same machine

2012-05-16 Thread André Warnier
Miguel Gonzalez wrote: there wasn't a limit of 32 bits OS for running JVM for more than 1.5 Gb? Not exactly. I'm not sure that my knowledge is totally accurate here, but here is my take on it : - a 32 bit OS generally means that the total address space available to *a process* running at

RE: two instances of Tomcat in same machine

2012-05-16 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es] Subject: Re: two instances of Tomcat in same machine there wasn't a limit of 32 bits OS for running JVM for more than 1.5 Gb? Yes, there is a limit on heap size for 32-bit JVMs and it's usually around 1.5 GB depending on the OS

Re: two instances of Tomcat in same machine

2012-05-16 Thread Jess Holle
On Windows 32-bit JVMs are often limited to less than 1.3GB of heap due to fragmentation of the 32-bit address space. Sometimes one cannot even get 1GB of heap! For any hefty server process on Windows you really want a 64-bit JVM for this reason. On other OS's one can often allocate much

Re: two instances of Tomcat in same machine

2012-05-16 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 5/16/12 5:50 AM, André Warnier wrote: Nobody can answer that question in the absolute. It all depends on how much memory your Tomcat instances really need (Really, your webapps, not Tomcat). to run the applications you put it them, for