Well, as I said at first, it all depends on your definition of what a memory hog is. Today's hog fits in tomorrow's pocket. We better all already be used to that.
Also, I don't think for a *minute* that the original developers of DSpace made a casual choice about their development environment--in fact, I think they made a responsible choice given the alternatives. Let's give our colleagues credit that's due. Their choice permits scaling and fits well for an open-source project. Putting the general problem of memory bloat in their laps seems pretty angsty to me. Lastly, dedicating a server to DSpace is a choice, not a necessity. We as implementors have complete freedom to separate out the database and storage tiers, and mechanisms exist for scaling Tomcat horizontally as well. In the other direction, I suspect people are running DSpace on VMware or xen virtual machines, too. Cory Snavely University of Michigan Library IT Core Services On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 13:40 -0500, Brad Teale wrote: > Pan, > > Dspace is a memory hog considering the functionality the application > provides. This is mainly due to the technological choices made by the > founders of the Dspace project, and not the functional requirements the > Dspace project fulfills. > > Application and memory bloat are pervasive in the IT industry. Each > individual organization should look at their requirements whether they > are hardware, software or both. Having to dedicate a machine to an > application, especially a relatively simple application like Dspace, is > wasteful for hardware resources and people resources. > > Web applications should _not_ need 2G of memory to "run comfortably". > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
