You won't need much horsepower. If anything I would go 64 bit and put 6-8 gigs of ram in the box. CPU won't matter much.
We run 10k rules on an old dual core, but the rulebase takes 2.5 gigs of ram. -Michael On Dec 14, 2009, at 10:11 AM, Bruce Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > I will be starting a new project soon and my middleware folks need > to size a server for it. Does anyone have any input as to how they > (middleware) can adjust their usual sizing exercise to account for > the use of Flow and Expert? Here are some "facts" that may or may > not be relevant... > We do not have any significant experience with Flow nor Expert > We will be using the "current" release of Drools as of January 4th > 2010 > Websphere in the middle, Oracle in the back > Our main Expert routine will run every 10 minutes and > will determine which of our 10-ish "flows" the work items will travel > may contain 500 - 1000 rules (guestimated by a noob)... > will process the rules once-through for each item in the batch > (little or no rule interactions) > a batch would typically contain 10- 100 items to process.. > but could contain up to 300 after a severe outage. > batch size could be controlled if necessary. > and will likely run on the same server as the "Flow" application... > Our internal web application will be primarily Flow driven with... > 50-ish user, 35 concurrent > 10 "flows" with simple to moderate complexity from a processing > perspective, mainly human tasks. (much of the time someone will > check a few boxes, add some comments, and the work item will flow to > the next step/person.) > I'm hopeful someone can pipe in with how Flow and Expert change the > typical sizing exercise, however, I appreciate any input you may > have whether related to sizing or not.. > thanks in advance > Bruce > > > NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended > recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged > information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or > distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, > please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of > the original message. > > > > _______________________________________________ > rules-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users
