Re: Heap size rule for Tomcat 5.5

2010-02-06 Thread evebill8
I have one > *very* > heavy compute application (not directly a web app) that likes all the RAM > it > can get as heap memory to cache intermediate results in case they can be > re-used. > > - Peter > > -- View this message in cont

Re: Heap size rule for Tomcat 5.5

2010-02-06 Thread Peter Crowther
On 5 February 2010 18:05, evebill8 wrote: > Cool! I just want to confirm if the rule is right. My IT guy also does > not > believe it. > > It wasn't a bad rule of thumb as a place from which to start tuning when typical server memory sizes were 0.5G to 2G - it reserved "sort-of enough" RAM for

Re: Heap size rule for Tomcat 5.5

2010-02-05 Thread evebill8
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Re: Heap size rule for Tomcat 5.5

2010-02-05 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Evebill8, On 2/5/2010 1:08 AM, evebill8 wrote: > I heard the rule to set the Tomcat's heap size is 2/3 of the memory. I agree with Chuck: this sounds like malarkey. Whoever told you that doesn't know what they're talking about. The rule for any Java

RE: Heap size rule for Tomcat 5.5

2010-02-04 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: evebill8 [mailto:evebi...@hotmail.com] > Subject: Heap size rule for Tomcat 5.5 > > I heard the rule to set the Tomcat's heap size is 2/3 of the memory. That sounds like nonsense. The minimum size of your heap is whatever you need to handle the expected load on your a

Heap size rule for Tomcat 5.5

2010-02-04 Thread evebill8
if I am wrong. Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Heap-size-rule-for-Tomcat-5.5-tp27463924p27463924.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: