Nice DSpace

Repository systems exist within real world system architectures. They share resources with numerous and varied other software systems. For this arrangement to be sustainable all systems must use the available resources responsibly. At Indiana University LIbraries, three production DSpace 7 instances share system resources with each other, with other repositories, with cataloging processing and archiving systems, all living on university-wide enterprise hardware. Through research and ongoing experimentation, methods and tools have been implemented at IU to ensure DSpace instances remain well-behaved, utilizing enough resources to remain responsive, but never leaving other systems to starve for memory or CPU time. This poster will describe those methods and tools.