1. On this point I can guarantee you that Orion is at least 5x faster than
WebSphere - it is an absolute dog for performance from personal experience
(perhaps IBM is trying to convince you to buy some 'big iron' to run it on).
I know there were some benchmarks of Orion around 0.7 against WebLogic that
were very favourable, but now WL has 5.x out and Orion has 1.x out - both of
which I'm sure have performance improvements. I'm sure the Orion team will
do a benchmark soon.
2. I run Orion on Linux and have found it relatively stable. Th only time it
crashes are JVM crashes, and I'll bet that's the Sun JDK1.2.2 JVM on Linux
(which is probably the least stable JVM). However I have a simple PERL
script that just brings the server right back up - it runs for weeks. IBM /
Sun's JDK1.3 for Linux should get rid of all these problems. Apart from that
the only time it dies is when it runs out of memory, but I'm fairly sure
that's just my extensive use of Xerces/Xalan (memory pigs + big memory
leaks) - I've never seen Orion leak memory when you're not using those two.
Hope this helps,
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Rowland
> Sent: Saturday, 24 June 2000 2:07
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: Server stability, performance
>
>
> I have been using Orion to develop for about two months now and love it.
> Soon I will need to deploy my application. I have two main
> concerns that I
> need answered before I can use Orion in a production environment.
> These two
> are performance and stability.
>
> Performance:
> I have read in Orion's literature about how they intend for Orion to
> outperform everything else on the market. On the benchmark page,
> they show
> how they outperform ASP. I think most of the people using Orion already
> know that Java is a better solution than ASP. What I really want
> to know is
> how does Orion compare to other Java solutions available. The ones I am
> personally most interested in is Orion vs. (IBM WebSphere or BEA
> WebLogic).
> Has anyone done comparisons between Orion and other commercial products?
>
> Stability:
> How reliable is Orion in a production environment? I am not
> concerned with
> minor bugs in the product, as I haven't had problems with it in
> development
> for the features I use. What I am more interested in is how robust is the
> application server after running for 30 days without a restart?
> I know that
> if I deploy on WebLogic, it will work without problems. I know
> this because
> they have been out quite a while and have been tested in the market place.
> Unfortunately, Orion has just been released. I have never let
> Orion run for
> days on end and had thousands of clients making requests of it.
> Has anyone
> done this kind of testing? If so, what were your results.
>
> I would really like to use Orion as it is a MUCH less expensive solution
> then any other commercially available product.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
> Jason Rowland
>
>
>
