... > Yep, I'm using RAID 0 for my system partition and I'm not complaining, > too. Substantially cheaper than getting top of the line SSD (tried some > cheaper ones and they were worse than HDDs) and performance is on par. Just work one week on a SSD. The access times and parallel reads and writes speed of a good SSD are just amazing - even compared to RAID0. This comes into play when multitasking is performed.
... > Damn, perhaps I should be asking about _software_ stack, not hardware > one. Eclipse and Tomcat seem to be better for a PC than Netbeans and > Glassfish are. Not at all. It really depends. Tomcat is no full stack JEE container like Glassfish. Netbeans, Eclipse or IntelliJ is out of scope. What I can tell for sure is that IntelliJ has the best web support. I think Netbeans had some problems running maven projects on tomcat and where eclipse wtp is much better. But the editor support in Netbeans is better than the support in eclipse. > > As I'm writing these words, Netbeans and Glassfish running for some 3 or > 4 hours take 2,5GB of my memory and it grows with each redeploy, max > I've seen was almost 8GB. "killall -9 java" became a kind of routine for > me since NB+GF will become unstable well before the take up those 12GBs > I have. There must be something wrong.... Netbeans runs in a JVM wich is started with a predefined amount max memory. If this memory is eaten up it'll serve you with a fresh hep space exception. IMHO this is also the case for Glassfish. I know for sure that this is the case for Tomcat and Jetty. Look for JVM parameters Xmx/Xms and I believe XX:MaxPermSize or something similar. > I guess memory is not a problem these days, since it's cheap and easy to > get 8GB or more even in a laptop. Yep! > Perhaps one can't run "out" of CPU, but when I compare compilation time > of the same project on my machine which is 4-5s to my friend's Mac where > it's about 20-30s, I believe my productivity _can_ hurt because of a > slow CPU. Especially on my old laptop which compiles the same project in > 3 minutes. And compilation is not all, frequent redeployments, switching > between IDE and browser and Photoshop and Virtualbox, using Firebug, all > this is much more acceptable on a fast, multi-core CPU. > > That's why I'm asking about i5 and i7 laptops -- I can read benchmarks > all day, but I'd love to hear what development on these machines feels > like, especially from folks who use Netbeans and Glassfish combo. You wont note a difference betwenn i5 and i7 when developing webapps. If you do care about build time differences of a half second then use a i7. > The only other option is to find a shop that will let me play with a > laptop for an hour before I buy it :-D > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company > that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to > best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure > and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl > _______________________________________________ > Stripes-users mailing list > Stripes-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users > -- Richard Hauswald Blog: http://tnfstacc.blogspot.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardhauswald Xing: http://www.xing.com/profile/Richard_Hauswald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Stripes-users mailing list Stripes-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users
