[Catalyst] Catalyst for (really) big applications

[ian docherty]

Marcello Romani wrote:

>Brandon Black ha scritto:
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>>On 5/18/06, ian docherty <ian at ecisecurity.com> wrote:
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>>>The reason I ask this is because all of the application is loaded into
>>>memory when it starts (is this strictly correct?) so there is going to
>>>be a limit in the size of the application limited by, presumably, the
>>>amount of memory in the system.
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>>I suspect that the general rule would be that the amount of memory
>>available on reasonably-priced modern hardware so vastly exceeds the
>>neccesary RAM for storing the code of a Catalyst application that this
>>shouldn't be an issue.
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>I recently deployed an intranet application with about 40/50 modules (I 
>don't have the code right now and I don't remember the exact number) on 
>a windows server, under Apache 2.0.5x.
>The two apache processes take up almost 200mb of ram just before the 
>first request. This value grows up to more than 250MB after list()ing 
>some tables (with paging).
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Thank you, this is the sort of information I have been after. Now, does 
anyone know if this is likely to grow linearly with the number of modules?

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>>If you were in some very wierd case where this mattered (I donno, say
>>you had 1 million Controller classes or something), I'm sure you could
>>split them up into logical chunks, put them on seperate servers, and
>>have a front-end divvy out the requests to appropriate segregated
>>back-ends.
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>I presume this is a requirement for every yahoo-sized app, whatever app 
>server you happen to use.
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>>-- Brandon
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