Howdy,
For minimum interference, run one instance of tomcat per application per
machine.  So if you have five apps and two machines, that's ten
instances of tomcat.

Yoav Shapira
Millennium ChemInformatics


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>From: Marco Pas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 5:30 AM
>To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>Subject: Question on using Tomcat 5 in production environment; using
>multiple instances or not?
>
>Hi,
>
>I cannot find a suitable answer on the situation and questions below:
>
>Situation:
>I want to use Tomcat in a high available environment, using 2 machines
>behind a load-balancer.
>On these machines several tomcat applications should be running.
>
>Requirements are:
>- maximum speed
>- ease of setup and maintenance
>- (possible) session clustering for failover purposes
>- when upgrading a specific application other applications should
suffer no
>interference
>
>Questions that i have are:
>- Should i run multiple instances of Tomcat on each machine, or just 1
>instance of Tomcat per machine ?
>- Should i run a Tomcat instance per application ????
>- Any experience in using session clustering and if this seems to hit
the
>performance ?
>
>I am searching for an infrastructure setup that suites my needs! Any
good
>hints and tips on implementing Tomcat in a production enviroment ?
>
>Greetings,
>Marco Pas
>
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