From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Mar 16 0:54:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mimer.webgiro.com [212.209.29.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB6B637BE78 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 00:54:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id 5DC022DC07; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:59:04 +0100 (CET) Received: by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A34447811; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:51:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97FE010E16; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:51:51 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:51:51 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Craig Shaver Cc: FreeBSD ISP List Subject: Re: Java and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <38D098F6.D6BB4934@progroup.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Craig Shaver wrote: > You can get the Apache stuff from apache.org to run java servlets and > jsp. I am not sure if they have any links to the FreeBSD JVM, but you > should be able to get that off of freebsd.org. From the benchmarks I > have seen it is the slowest platform to run this stuff on. I think it > is due to the way threads are implemented and because there is no JIT > compiler. Everything is done in bytecodes. > > It does work. Linux and Slowaris are better for this type of server > side java work. As much as I love FreeBSD, I hate to say that performance of JDK1.1.8 on FreeBSD is horrible. It's perfectly ok to use it for development, and running lightly-loaded applications, but if you have to run heavy stuff on it, today I'd recommend against. :(( If I understand it correctly, this has a lot to do with two issues: * it's not JDK1.2, which is working much faster. You can try it out with Blackdown JDK1.2 which is running on FreeBSD as well. * well-designed kernel threads can provide much better performance for I/O bound applications. The solution to this is on the way, but not yet there... Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message