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Date:      Thu, 06 Mar 2014 10:32:06 +0200
From:      Todor Todorov <todorov@paladin.bulgarpress.com>
To:        freebsd-java@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: JDK performance FreeBSD / Linux
Message-ID:  <53183286.1060308@paladin.bulgarpress.com>
In-Reply-To: <5316D73B.7080005@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
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On 03/05/2014 09:50 AM, Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
> On 04/03/2014 21:29, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Todor Todorov
>> <todorov@paladin.bulgarpress.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I have to migrate an old machine (FreeBSD 8.3 + OpenJDK 6 + Tomcat 5.5)
>>> to a new hardware and respectively looking for answers
>>>
>>> One of the options is to use FBSD 10 the other one is 'some Linux'. In
>>> the past there were penalties for using FBSD + Java, not sure what is
>>> the situation now. The hardware will be 2x processors E5, 64GB RAM -
>>> running multi user Java app on Tomcat 7.
>>>
>>> I have to defend the decision to use FBSD but need to have something in
>>> my pockets.
>>
>> In my efforts to set up Jenkins in the FreeBSD cluster, I found two
>> problems with
>> Java on FreeBSD.
>>
>> See:  https://wiki.freebsd.org/Jenkins
>>
>> (1)  Item #10, issue with JDK on FreeBSD 10 (workaround available)
>>
>> (2)   Item #23 issue with JDK on FreeBSD 9.2 (fix available in
>> FreeBSD 9.2-p3)
>>
>>
>> My advice to you is to see if you can propose going with FreeBSD 9.2-p3,
>> until Item #10 is fixed.
>>
>> I hate to say it, but it doesn't really look good for defending your
>> continued use of FreeBSD for a Java app. :(
>
> OTOH we had high quality openjdk ports for quite some years, and the
> stability has been phenomenal.
> Both my linux colleagues of mine were having equal or worse stability
> than mine for the last couple
> of years.
> I am running 9.2-RELEASE and a combination of openjdk 1.6.0_32 and
> 1.7.0_25
>
> In my eyes the past positive history of FreeBSD with java is rather a
> good argument.
> For the past users, the recent instability problems didn't frighten us
> in the slightest
> (especially those who were not affected :)
>
>> -- 
>> Craig
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>
>
Thank you for your inputs!
I propose FreeBSD 9.2 and OpenJDK 1.6 and a package of tests.

Best regards,
Todor



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