Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 18:02:33 -0500 From: Brent Verner <brent@rcfile.org> To: Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org> Cc: java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running server-side Java on FreeBSD in production environments Message-ID: <20031202230233.GA1381@rcfile.org> In-Reply-To: <20031202130629.U56021@fez.hyperreal.org> References: <20031202130629.U56021@fez.hyperreal.org>
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[2003-12-02 13:12] Brian Behlendorf said: | | So, I've seen a few mentions here of folks using Java server apps on | FreeBSD in production. I've been very happy to watch the progress by the | Java team on the native JDKs from the sidelines, as well as the | improvements to libc_r and such that have been MFC'd, but I'm curious as | to whether the consensus on this list is that it's ready to be used for | production. Anyone want to share good success or horror stories? We're | trying to determine whether the apache.org box can start to run our own | software. :) Speed is definitely less important than proper functioning. Here's my observation of running tomcat and jboss on -STABLE for over a year now. 1.3.1-p8 (w/ hotspot) stability : excellent performance : sluggish (seemed to be about %40 slower than 1.4.1 when I last compared the two on some ab(8) tests against tomcat) 1.4.2-p5 (w/ hotspot) stability : very good/excellent (_may_ have seen this version cause me to have to kill(1) the jave process when trying to shutdown tomcat, but cannot be certain it wasn't something in my code) performance : very good (no formal comparison, but seems to match performance per-MHz as sun's jdk on debian/linux-2.4) I would certainly deploy a native java on FreeBSD (4.9-STABLE) for nearly-critical tomcat applications. That said, there are some features which are not complete and/or busted. If the application runs at all, I'd feel pretty confident it will keep on running. cheers. Brent -- "Develop your talent, man, and leave the world something. Records are really gifts from people. To think that an artist would love you enough to share his music with anyone is a beautiful thing." -- Duane Allman
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