Recources for desktop client vs. web client?

Openfire Openfire Support
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I`ve read that web clients using BOSH like JWchat needs more resources than desktop client like spark.

Is this true? If it does, why is there a difference?

In says here that 800MB ram and 3 GHz processor can support up to 10K concurrent users. How many concurrent web-clients using BOSH can I support with the same resources?

What is a reasonable number of contacts in the roster of each user?

Thanks

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I don’t think we’ve done load testing for BOSH yet, unfortunately, but I can say that the 10k number is old. It’s way higher than that now

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Can you tell me what are the differences between desktop and web clients that can affect the number of available concurrent users?

Could you only give me a rough estimate of the difference?

What is a reasonable number of contacts in a user roster? I want to limit my users roster so it won`t add load on my server.

Thanks