[lug] Specing out a server

[George Sexton]

You need to do some testing. Here's an example of the testing I did to 
look at scalability for my Tomcat app.

http://www.mhsoftware.com/caldemo/manual/en/pageFinder.html?page=622.htm

Gordon Golding wrote:
> I'm specing out a project.  Trying to guess size/expense of hardware for 3 different user base sizes 100, 1000, 5000.
>
> Web-based application
> 100 Gig text database
> Natural Language processing provides interactive text-based sessions to help users comprehend the text
>
> I'm currently using Apache/Tomcat, C and Java with Postgres.
>
> I'm currently buying Dells, typical machine:
> Pentium 4 Prescott DT, 3.0GHZ, 1 MEGB, 800FSB
> 1 Gig memory
> 1 U4001 HARD DRIVE, 160GB, Serial ATA, 8MB, 7.2K, WD-XL80 
>
> For 100 Users - this is definitely big enough.
>
> But what about 1000 or 5000 concurrent users?
>
> What have people been dealing with for actual concurrent sessions involving some processing and database access?
>
> What are we looking at hardware-wise?
>
>   

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