[ajug-members] JBoss with MySql, How Much Hardware/User?

[Dan Glauser]

Hello Fellow AJUG'ers,

We're working on a content management system for an education content
provider and need to speck out some hardware.  We are looking at using
JBoss with MySql and probably won't be don't much that's very cpu
intensive.  It'll be a "standard" WebApp with JSPs/??? on the front end,
a POJO controller layer and either Hibernate, JDO, or DAO/JDBC for the
model layer.  Now I'm aware that no one can give me definitive numbers
but I figured AJUG would be a good forum to ask, "What kind of usage are
you able to support on what kind of hardware?"

Please respond with things like:

View: <Tapestry, JSP pages, Velocity, Tiles, etc.>
Controller: <Struts, POJOs, etc.>
Model: <EJBs, Hibernate, JDO (who's implementation), straight JDBC>

Webserver: <yes, no, Apache, etc.>
Appserver: <JBoss, Websphere, Weblogic, etc.>
Database: <MySql, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, etc.>

Concurrent Users: <average, peak>
Max Users: <average, peak>

Clusters:  Which components are clustered <App Server, Web Server,
Database> and please give a general idea of your topography.  Also
please list if are replicating session.

Server Chipset: <Intel, AMD, Sparc, etc.>
Server OS: <Solaris, Linux, Windows 2003 Server>


I'm interested in hearing what people out there are actually using and
what kind of performance they are getting.
I think that this might be of interest to a lot of people here and I
hopse that some may see this as a golden opportunity for people to show
off their technology. 

"We have a round robin cluster of three dual proc Blade servers running
RedHat Linux 9.0 with IBM Websphere backed with an Oracle database on a
Sun E10K with eight procs.  The other day we listed 10,000 concurrent
users with no system lag.  Our setup rocks!"

If have a chance to respond, please have fun with this one!
And if you don't know what your setup is at work perhaps this is a good
opportunity to find out.

I look forward to hearing your responses.

-- 
Dan Glauser
Director of Serverside Development
Roundbox Media
dan at roundboxmedia.com
W: 404.877.0107