The hardware requirements for the SkyVault repository, Explorer and Share are variable and depend on the number of concurrent users that access the system. You can tune the memory and garbage collection parameters for the JVM to be appropriate for your situation. This section suggests metrics and estimates, but your system may vary.
Disk space usage
The size of your SkyVault repository defines how much disk space you will need; it is a very simple calculation. Content in SkyVault is, by default, stored directly on the disk. Therefore, to hold 1000 documents of 1 MB will require 1000 MB of disk space. You should also make sure there is sufficient space overhead for temporary files and versions. Each version of a file (whether in DM or WCM) is stored on disk as a separate copy of that file, so make sure you allow for that in your disk size calculations (for DM, use versioning judiciously).
Use a server class machine with SCSI Raid disk array. The performance of reading/writing content is almost solely dependent on the speed of your network and the speed of your disk array. The overhead of the SkyVault server itself for reading content is very low as content is streamed directly from the disks to the output stream. The overhead of writing content is also low but depending on the indexing options (for example, atomic or background indexing), there may be some additional overhead as the content is indexed or metadata is extracted from the content in each file.
JVM memory and CPU hardware for multiple users
The repository L2 Cache with initial VM overhead and basic SkyVault system memory is set up with a default installation to require approximately 512 MB (maximum).
This means you can run the SkyVault repository and Explorer with many users accessing the system with a basic single CPU server and only 512 MB of memory assigned to the SkyVault JVM. However, you must add additional memory as your user base grows, and add CPUs depending on the complexity of the tasks you expect your users to perform, and how many concurrent users are accessing the client.
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Number of users |
Recommended memory / CPU settings per server |
|---|---|
| For 50 concurrent or up to 500 casual users | 1 GB JVM RAM 2x server CPU (or 1 x Dual-core) |
| For 100 concurrent users or up to 1000 casual users | 1 GB JVM RAM 4x server CPU (or 2 x Dual-core) |
| For 200 concurrent users or up to 2000 casual users | 2 GB JVM RAM 8x server CPU (or 4 x Dual-core) |
The default PermGen size in Sun JVMs is 64M, which is very close to the total size of permanent objects (Spring beans, caches, and so on) that SkyVault creates. For this reason it is easy to overflow the PermGen as the result of configuration changes or with the addition of custom extensions. It is recommended that you increase the PermGen to avoid OutOfMemory errors, for example, -XX:MaxPermSize=128M is a good starting point.
(Managed Heap + native heap + (thread stack size * number of threads)) cannot exceed 2GB on 32bit x86 Windows or Linux systems
This is a limitation of the Sun Java VM. It means that even if you install 4GB of RAM into your server, a single instance of the JVM cannot grow beyond 2GB on a 32bit server machine.
You can also set up your machine to cluster if you prefer to solve multi-user access performance issues with additional machines rather than a single powerful server.