[flexcoders] Flex License(s) Performance
To All: I have asked MM and have not gotten what I see as a reasonable answer. Their own website says that the typical application would need 6-8 licenses. Let's take this example server: Dell Server @ 3.8 GHz with 1 GB RAM JRUN4 Win 2000 Server 1 Flex license MySQL database on same server Assume sufficient internet bandwidth. Using RemoteObjects for data access. Do I need any other software? With the above scenario how many simultaneous users can adequately access the server before I would need a second server? Or is it better to ask how many per hour? Would going to 2 GB RAM make any difference? If I moved MySQL to another server, would that cause any major issues? Also, I read somewhere that RemoteObjects is faster. Is it a signficant increase? Thanks in advance, Jack -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Flex License(s) Performance
I'll take a stab at a high level. Comments inline below On 7/19/05, jwc_wensan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To All: I have asked MM and have not gotten what I see as a reasonable answer. Their own website says that the typical application would need 6-8 licenses. Let's take this example server: Dell Server @ 3.8 GHz with 1 GB RAM JRUN4 Win 2000 Server 1 Flex license MySQL database on same server Assume sufficient internet bandwidth. Using RemoteObjects for data access. Do I need any other software? Well, you have Flex for your presentation tier and MySQL as your database tier, but you need a middleware tier (ColdFusion, Java, .NET, etc.) to communicate between the two. You don't write queries and place them in your ActionScript/MXML code. With the above scenario how many simultaneous users can adequately access the server before I would need a second server? Or is it better to ask how many per hour? It's an annoying answer, but: It Depends. Seriously. How many users will be accessing the application? What are they going to be doing? Is it a public or internal site? There are so many project-specific questions that are unique to your environment, that I defy anybody external to your company and not familiar with what you're doing to accurately give you performance statistics. And yes, that even goes for Macromedia's own 6-8 licenses remark. Would going to 2 GB RAM make any difference? If you insist on keeping the database on the same box as your Flex/J2EE server, then absolutely, I would recommend going to 2 GB RAM. I would not deploy a production-level Flex application with anything less than 1 GB or RAM for the Flex instance itself. Again, see above where I say that it depends on your requirements, but this has been my experience. If I moved MySQL to another server, would that cause any major issues? It shouldn't, and it's something I would recommend if you have the infrastructure to accomodate the separation. Physical separation of tiers is a good thing, as it can help eliminate critical points of failure if a server dies. Also, I read somewhere that RemoteObjects is faster. Is it a signficant increase? I would read this blog entry and the Flex Server Performance article it references, as there are some benefits to using ROs, but also some gotchas: http://tomlink.net/blog/index.cfm?mode=entryentry=DE53AA15-7E97-A3B0-E08327BED0699516 Regards, Dave. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Flex License(s) Performance
jwc_wensan wrote: With the above scenario how many simultaneous users can adequately access the server before I would need a second server? Or is it better to ask how many per hour? See Ted's entry here about scaling Flex: http://www.powersdk.com/ted/2005/05/scaling-flex.php I completely agree with him as well. I don't have Flex running on the server at all. Instead, I take my Flex-compiled .swf and place it on a typical web server. Then, the Flex application is delivered as a .swf and there's no need for the server to do any extra processing at all. I've never had a server crash because it couldn't send out .swf files fast enough. Keep in mind though, you'll need a Flex license for every server the .swf file sits on. You can use RemoteObjects without a Flex server running as well, but you'll need to use another AMF gateway such as OpenAMF (or you can use ColdFusion). If you use WebServices, you might need a little shim script to get around the security restrictions of the Flash Player (loading data across domains), depending on what server the web services are located on. Also, I read somewhere that RemoteObjects is faster. Is it a signficant increase? In general RemoteObjects are faster because it uses AMF, which is a binary format and much less verbose than WebServices. It's hard to give a definite yes/no answer because I've actually seen results go both ways... -d -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
