- stability
  No more to say than Yoav.

- performance

  You may observe better performance with several vms on one server:
    - Depending on the quality of the thread implementation 
      in your java vm and the os.
    - Depending on the quality of the gc implementation you may
      gain performace with smaller heap (n instances need in most
      cases less heap than one instance)

  <Yoav-Mantra>
    The only way to be shure about that is to test your application 
    in your environment with the expected load behaviour.
  </Yoav-Mantra>

- resources
  With n instances
    - you need more total memory (JDK 1.5 will cut this down a bit).
    - you may need more open db connections in the pool.

- maintainance
  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam T. Gautier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 6:37 PM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Load-Balancing
> 
> 
> I have a three server configuration with 1 Apache (httpd) and 
> 2 Tomcat 
> (10 instances a piece) servers.  The configuration is working 
> but it is 
> a little complicated.  I choose this configuration for 
> performance.  I 
> loaded the tomcat servers with lots of RAM and let the 
> multiple instance 
> run as independant processes under linux.  This would allow, 
> I beleieve 
> for beter CPU usage.  There were serveral other reasons for 
> my original 
> choice of load balancing across multiple instances on 
> multiple machines 
> which I won't go into unless asked. But, my question is this.  Is it 
> needed?  Can I get the same performance  from single tomcat 
> instances on 
> the two boxes (rely on threads instead of POSIX proccesses)?  
> Wouldn't 
> running 1 JVM instead of 10 provide a better use of memory 
> per machine?  
> The configuration would be easier, definatly...  What are the 
> thought of 
> the others in this group?  Thanks...
> 
> 
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