On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 12:59 -0500, Ariel Nunez wrote: > Thanks for the Advice Vince, however I am tied to Amazon for the next > few months while we figure out a better longer term option (probably > with RackSpace). > > However I still need to figure out wether I should use more RAM or > more CPU to host more than one GeoServer instance in the same server.
I would try to assess that's being stressed first. Can you paste the output of 'free -m' on your current server? More RAM is probably what you need. Gabriel > > Cheers, > Ariel. > > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Vince Lotito <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ariel, > > > > Since you are looking at server sizing in a cloud (Amazon's EC2) you may > > want to consider other offerings in your analysis. EC2 carves out memory > > and cpu as a limit, while other cloud offerings (built on Zen, i.e > > RackSpace) carves out memory and cpu as "committed" or garanteed minimum > > and thus your cloud instance can swell to use the available resources on > > the machine as they are available. Also, you want to look into failure > > scenarios, the Zen offereings are better at managing memory and disk in the > > recovery failde instances... > > > > Vince > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Ariel Nunez [mailto:[email protected]] > >> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 10:25 AM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: [Geoserver-users] More CPU or more RAM? > >> > >> Hello list, > >> > >> I am having to host a few GeoNode instances and it uses GeoServer as > >> the backend. We have a lot of shapefile based datastores (some with > >> tens of megs and just a couple of polygons so GeoServer has a hard > >> time rendering them). > >> > >> I am going to host more than one GeoServer instance on a more powerful > >> machine but I have the following options and I don't know if I should > >> go for more CPUs or more RAM i will have one PostGIS db and 2-4 > >> Geoservers: > >> > >> A) Extra Large Instance > >> > >> 15 GB memory > >> 8 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each) > >> 1,690 GB instance storage > >> 64-bit platform > >> I/O Performance: High > >> API name: m1.xlarge > >> > >> B) High-CPU Extra Large Instance > >> > >> 7 GB of memory > >> 20 EC2 Compute Units (8 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute Units each) > >> 1690 GB of instance storage > >> 64-bit platform > >> I/O Performance: High > >> API name: c1.xlarge > >> > >> Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts with me. > >> > >> Ariel. > >> > >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> ---- > >> Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! > >> Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by > >> optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the > >> Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. > >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Geoserver-users mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! > Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by > optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the > Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users -- Gabriel Roldan [email protected] Expert service straight from the developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
