Yes. Sun JDK 6U9 and above on Ubuntu Jaunty have not demonstrated any real showstoppers for my purposes. My highest traffic server (a Rackspace dedicated box) handles about 15 requests per second continuously, so while we're not pressing up against the theoretical maximums here, I feel pretty happy that the JDK platform is stable anyway. We haven't seen any unpleasantness on Slicehost or Amazon EC2, the other two hosting providers we use. EC2/Jaunty/Sun is where we put all our new applications. We use the "alestic" EC2 images as a Ubuntu baseline and then prepare our own AMIs.
Unrelated, since you're also a scripting guy ... those high load servers still need an occasional JVM restart to clear memory leaks associated with script engine use. I can't officially blame Rhino, Jython, or JRuby for this, as the real culprit is almost certainly antipatterns in user-authored scripts, but definitely the sites that run lots of scripts do leak memory over time. That's the only stability problem that forces occasional restarts on our Restlet 1.2M2 based platform. Currently I'm benchmarking stuff on 2.0M4 (well, technically a snapshot from 2 days later that fixes a Mac bug) and the performance seems better, stability just as good. - R On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Tal Liron <[email protected]>wrote: > This is a very useful thread! > > So, when you listed the problems with OpenJDK6 on Hardy and Jaunty, does > this mean you didn't see the same problems using Sun's JDK6 on those > platforms? > > -Tal > ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2382994
