On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:50:19 -0700 John R Pierce wrote:
ah, i would call that a 'terminal server', thats quite a different workload then. I was thinking of 'application server' as something like Tomcat, providing webservices.
I thought about calling it that, but when I think of a terminal server I think of something like a POS system that runs one program on a stack of terminals. This is more of a centralized desktop application thing.
even so, I'd expect all those applications to be cached in main memory once they are loaded the first time, unless this server is also memory constrained.
Well, users and applications come and go all day long and since this is a publishing company some of the files get pretty honkin' huge.
The SSD is about $100 or so, so I figure at that price it's worth having for any gain that can be had, even if it isn't a blow-your-mind improvement under field circumstances.