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In our application we have the following path of data

SQL -> Tomcat -> XML -> XSLT -> HTML.  

We found out that the XML + XSLT thing can limit what we can do just by
the number of stuff that goes on.  When it does run into issues I get
'Broken Pipe' errors in my catalina log files.  The JVM ran out of
memory try to render a web page.



On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 16:01 -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Barring what David said, whenever you've got a machine that's trying to
> do more than one thing with disk I/O at once - especially if the two
> things are related and therefore land right on top of each other in time
> and/or if read operations and write operations are mixed, it's always
> good to break up the I/O onto separate drives that hang off of separate
> controllers.  The separate controller thing is especially important if
> you're using PATA.  
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 12:47 -0400, David Corbin wrote:
> > The most important thing is to give Java (including Eclipse) enough heap 
> > space?  How much heap space are you giving Eclispe?
> > 
> > David
> > On Sunday 09 October 2005 12:33 pm, Greg wrote:
> > > I am looking for any tips/comments/advice on buying a fast machine to do
> > > J2EE on.  I am developing in Eclipse and working on large web applications
> > > and it seems that my current box is pretty slow.  I am using the one box to
> > > run my database, run whichever AS/Servlets container I need (JBoss, Resin,
> > > or plain old Tomcat), and I try to only recompile whatever has changed and
> > > not the whole thing.  I started out with all of my web apps in the same
> > > workspace but since it slowed it down I now only load one at a time and
> > > pull up any other pages in another app individually if I need to refer to
> > > them.
> > >
> > > I have tried developing on a dual 64-bit Opteron (2.0 GHz) with 2 GB of
> > > memory and on a 3.6 GHz HP laptop with 1 GB of memory and the laptop seems
> > > way faster than the dual box.  I have been told that the most important
> > > thing is clock speed and that using 2 processors is irrelevant.  Is this
> > > correct ?  Is AMD's FX line of processors (2.8 GHz) faster than Intel's P4
> > > (I think around 3.74 GHz) ?  Does RAM matter past 1 GB ??  Any opinions of
> > > using a SCSI HD/PCI card vs. a SATA HD through the motherboard ?
> > >
> > > I have tried to Google for an answer to this but have found nothing of
> > > substance.  My knowledge of hardware with regards to processors and Java is
> > > sadly lacking.
> > >
> > > I would appreciate any tips / advice / comments.  Thanks,
> > >
> > > Greg
> > >
> > > - apologies to any that are on the ajug-members list as well as this one.
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