Scaling Enterprise Java on 64-bit Multi-Core X86-Based Servers
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006Onjava just published our article on Java performance tuning on highend X86 servers. It is the result of a collaboration effort between JBoss/RedHat and Dell. Most of the advices given in the article are already available elsewhere. But we put them together and hopefully give you some more reasons to upgrade to Java 5.0. 
We stress tested a number of JBoss applications, including EJB3 and Seam applications on a cluster of PoweerEdge 1955 Blade servers. The 10-server cluster has 40 CPU cores and 80GB of combined memory. I am really impressed by the performance of those servers. A single blade can handle several millions of page views per day for a small Seam application. I wish I have one of those!