Multiple Tomcat on Same Machine(One JVM) + Total Initial Heap Size

Hi,

I am having 2 tomcat on 1 machine and 1 jvm on the the same machine. both the tomcat shares the same jvm.

now if i allocate 1 GB initial heap to both the tomcat.

and start both the tomcat. Total how much heap will be initialized.

Will it be 1 gb for tomcat1 + 1 gb for tomcat2 = total 2 gb ?

or will it be 1 gb which will be shared by both the tomcat ?

Regards,
Jigar Naik.

Since there will be two separate JVM processes running (no sharing going on), each will get 1 GB, hence 2 GB in all.

ok.. thanks ulf...

Jigar Naik wrote:... both the tomcat shares the same jvm.

I don't understand how this is possible?

Not sure but it should be like.. one jvm two instances.

Saying there is one jvm is a misuse of the term.

There may be one Java installation - library, etc. but each time you start a Java program it gets its own jvm instance. There may be shared library components but that is managed by the operating system.

Using the right words is important.

Bill

Instead of running two Tomcat instances, it's possible to have a single instance listen on two different ports, thereby still having just a single server process. Not sure if that would help in your circumstances. For that you'd need additional Connector elements inside the Service element in your server.xml. See http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/index.html for more details.