[Catalyst] two Catalyst flaws

Mike Whitaker mike at altrion.org
Thu Jan 3 11:27:49 GMT 2008


> A normal "mistake" of managing web servers these days is to put  
> tons of web
> applications onto one server and letting them fight over resources.  
> Servers
> (and memory in particular) is a low cost factor (compared to  
> development
> costs). Then why not give your lovely web application some GB's of  
> memory?

Absolutely. Memory is cheap, about 1GB / hour of programmer time at  
any decent rate. (Crucial, 2GB for £52.). If it takes you more than  
an hour to reduce the memory footprint of your app, buy your server  
more RAM :)
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