On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:55:52 +1100, Mike Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But what would be the benefit in sharing a load between instances of > CFMX on the same server? Wouldnt you still be using up the same > amount of RAM, Processor time etc? In fact more because you have the > instances of CFMX taking up resources too. No?
Actually, no, not necessarily. 1) multiple CPUs A single JVM can only take a certain amount of advantage of multiple CPUs. If you run multiple JVMs (multiple "instances"), you can take better advantage of multiple CPUs. I'm talking four- and eight-CPU machines really rather than two-CPU machines although you may get benefits even on a dual CPU machine. 2) RAM A single JVM can only use 2Gb RAM (on Windows) so if you have more RAM in your server, you need multiple JVMs to spread your memory usage and use 4Gb (two JVMs) or more. Of course, you do need plenty of RAM to take advantage of this. -- Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/ Team Fusebox -- http://www.fusebox.org/ Breeze Me! -- http://www.corfield.org/breezeme Got Gmail? -- I have 5 invites to give away! "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
