On 27/08/2010 17:57, S Ahmed wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If you have a server with 15 GB of ram (or any large number for arguments
> sake), does it ever make sense to run multiple instances of tomcat on the
> same server?  (serving http requests for the same web application)

If you have a 64bit JVM, probably not.

> Or can a single instance utilize all the server resources just
> fine efficiently?

If you have a 64bit JVM, probably.

> The reason I am asking is that I have read that those hosting ruby on rails,
> or python web applications usually run multiple instances of their
> respective web server, each running on its own port, and then proxied using
> haproxy or the like.

Each having separate resource (DB) pools, which must make managing them
a tad tricky.  Or maybe that's not a consideration...


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