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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:31:58 -0600
From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: "Andrew Sullivan" <ajs@commandprompt.com>,
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Subject: Re: Which hardware ?
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 03:38:59PM +0200, Lionel wrote:

>> Which OS would you use ? (knowing that there will be a JDK 1.6 installed
>> too)
>
> . . .I think this is the real mistake.  Get a separate database box.
> It's approximately impossible to tune a box correctly for both your
> application and your database, in my experience.

Having had to install jvm 1.6 for a few weird admin bits we were using
in the past, I didn't even think the same thing as you on this.  Good
catch.