From: brien colwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any program that needs 8gb of RAM to run seems suspect. Large amounts
of data should be abstracted through the filesystem and dealt with as
files.
I have several programs that will cheerfully use 8G, or more, of RAM. In
general, they are large
Don't forget to leave some space for the OS' buffer cache. If your
app.s do a lot of I/O then they can benefit a great deal from having
the most commonly accessed storage blocks cached all the time.
W.r.t. Tomcat tuning this means you don't try to use up all of
physical memory with Tomcat
