Re: Glassfish and Tomcat: memory requirements

Mario wrote:


I am not entirely sure I understand you question, but
then, my system has 1 *Gig.* of memory and a 1.8GHz
Athlon AMD processor, and I find most of the major IDEs
(e.g. NetBeans, Eclipse) to be altogether too slow for my
requirements (or patience - it is like coding while sitting
in glue).

Looking at the memory requirements of all three..
(just from a quick search - I have not used Glassfish)
Glassfish memory requirements: 256 Meg
Tomcat default: 64 Meg
NetBeans 4.0/5.0: 384 Meg

It seems running Glassfish and Tomcat together should
be OK within 512 Meg memory, so long as other Windows
processes do not consume more than 180 meg.

Tomcat and Netbeans at the same time would be pushing
the limits of that available memory, and all three together
would cause a *lot* of 'swap file' activity - it would be very
slow.

Since the most 'memory hungry' part is NetBeans, I think
you should look to replace that first.

The only development tool I have used* that might work for
you is known as TextPad** - it is not an IDE like NetBeans or
Eclipse - it does not do even 10% of what either of those will
do, but it is fine for editing code. The version I have is old,
but I suspect the current versions do not need much more
memory.

Combined with Ant (a build tool) it should do for your current
needs. But then, if you are just starting out, you may not
need Ant.

* ..and still currently use.

** <http://www.textpad.com/>

HTH

--
Andrew Thompson
http://www.athompson.info/andrew/

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