Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Sakai is a monster

I wanted to test out some functionality in the assessment tool in Sakai, so I just ran svn up on my dusty 2-5-x sources, built, and started up tomcat. This was at the bottom of catalina.out:

INFO: Server startup in 144105 ms (2008-05-06 18:00:38,367 main_org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina)


It takes two minutes and 24 seconds to start! And I have a recent MacBook Pro with 4 gigs of ram. Madness, I say.

2 comments:

Jason Shao said...

Have you tried using Ian's Kernel profile, or Aaron's Cafe distribution? They're both stripped down, and intended to be used for development or testing of particular tools -- much more lightweight

Al Wold said...

Yup, I have used the cafe. Definitely much leaner for development. I have this one loaded up with all the tools just for trying out functionality. If you think about it, it's actually impressive that so much code has been written by the community that it takes so long to start up :)