>>> suppressed 12/14/04 02:13PM >>> > Ethan, > > Thanks a lot for the details you provide. So, for many stores to share a > single sever instance is not a viable solution for commercial use. > > The question now should be: > - What is the memory consumption for a server instance? > - CPU usage percentage? > > I am trying to figure out what average hosting cost for each storefront will > be if we use IC. > > Thanks > > Jim One of our servers is running approximately 15 catalogs under one instance of interchange. It runs fine...the only thing i don't like is that reconfig requests are too quiet (errors aren't displayed; you have to check the error logs to see what died). Well, that and installing a global sub/tag/etc requires a full restart (which takes about 15 seconds...not long enough to freak out vlink, but long enough to possibly cause a noticeable delay to visitors). One could run interchange with the --test option before attempting a restart, if one were paranoid about a global change they'd made. But for the most part, the only thing that could go wrong from changing a catalog, is that that catalog would die. It's not easy to accidentally have one catalog break another. CPU- and RAM-wise, the server in question is a dual P3/733 with 512MB RAM. Idle time is consistently 80% or higher (load average atm: 0.04, 0.10, 0.08) and memory usage is about 560MB (71MB of it swap), with apache, tomcat, mysql, and interchange running. Keep in mind, though, that a number of the catalogs don't get much traffic at all. I wouldn't hesitate to run 5 busy stores on it, but i'd have to look at performance at that point before recommending more. / _______________________________________________ interchange-users mailing list suppressed http://www.icdevgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/interchange-users
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