> > We are going to be setting up a dedicated cocoon server soon > and I am trying to spec out the hardware. The operating > system will be redhat (8 > probably) and tomcat will be the servlet engine. > > Does anyone have any experiences of what hardware balance is > right for cocoon?
As much as you can afford... :-) >I know this is stupid question with no > concrete answer as it depends on what the server will be > doing, loading, etc. etc. etc. > > The cocoon server is mainly going to be serving FOP based > transformations, xml (xhtml) to PDF and xml to svg to png. Given that it sounds like as much memory as you can afford will help... > As much static content as possible will be served from a > dedicated apache http server so this machine will only be > doing dynamic xml transformations. Some of these might get > quite large, our present record is xhmtl to 206 pages of pdf. Yep, definitely going to need memory. As you've stated there is no answer to this question. Here we have Cocoon serving a lot of very dynamic content. Dev development is 2 Dell 2650's: dual Xeon processors, RAID 5, 1GB memory. One runs Oracle DB other runs Jboss/Tomcat/Cocoon. Production will be Quad Xeon processor with 4GB memory for DB and multiple 2650's (or similar) for JBoss and Tomcat with more memory. We expect to support a couple 100 users. Lots' of hardware for a small user base, but the problem is hard to solve and hardware is cheaper than people time for this particular problem... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
