Re: Prevayler vs Terracotta

What about the following:

Terracotta in persistent mode configured to have a big swap for the
virtual JVM. Thus your rarely used objects are in swap and will not be
read until they are needed.

I have not tried this yet though.

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:38 PM, William Pietri <[email protected]> wrote:
> A client, who does not use Prevayler but is using the hot-in-RAM approach,
> has been using 64-bit machines with large JVMs quite happily. I think their
> production machine had 16 GB of RAM, with talk of expansion.
>
> The problem with this approach, though, turns out to be read IO bandwidth
> and object deserialization. Their startup times are on the order of 30
> minutes.
>
> If anybody has interesting solutions (hardware or software) to the long
> startup time problem, I'd love to hear about them, as I think that's
> Prevayler's Achilles' Heel for scaling.
>
> William
>

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