In general the JVM developped by SUN runs substantially quicker on Windows then on
Linux. Try for instance to
run HypersonicSQL in core on both platforms. As I recall the performance penalty using
Linux is reduced using
JVM 1.3. Another disadvantage using 1.3 Linux is that the stability of the JVM tends
to be less.
So much for wining about Java on Linux. The good news is that the platform itself is
much more stable. My server
only reboots when te power goes down. As far as I know that is still not the case
using NT/Win2k. When the JVM
goes down in a production environment you can have Linux automagically restart the
engine, causing only a small
hick-up in your service depending on the startup time of the server.
Further more the security of a Linux/UNIX platform is much better, but that is
probably not an essential thing when
you can only access Orion on the server (and all other access is denied). In that case
the security features of Orion
should do the trick in general.
Depending on the project (and the people to support the systems!) I would choose one
or the other.
I remember a previous posting with a refrence to JVM benchmarks on the list about it,
but I couldn't find it anymore.
Frank
On Monday, October 23, 2000 12:00 PM, Holmes, George (TWIi London)
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> I wasn't working on the project myself, and possibly gave a slightly
> mis-leading impression ;->
>
> To the best of my knowledge there were 8-12 Dual P3 500, each loaded with
> all the necessary EJBs, JSPs et al. and load-balanced using BIG IP from F5
> Networks. However, none of the boxes were even touched in terms of resource
> consumption.
>
> Apparently, and this is a definite (sic) Windows NT 4/2000 with a
> dual-processor running Java out-performs a Linux box of the same spec
> running Java. Originally, the project was trialled to run on Linux, but it
> was discovered that NT 4 was faster!!! Has anyone else had any experience
> of this? I was told that it was due to better MP support in NT 4/2000???
>
> George
>
> GEORGE HOLMES
>
> TWI Interactive
> Media House
> Burlington Lane
> LONDON
> W4 2TH
> ENGLAND
>
> TEL: +44 208 233 5631
> FAX: +44 208 233 7701
> CELL: +44 7968 918813
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duffey, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 20 October 2000 19:24
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: RE: Orion in production
>
>
> Wow! That's pretty impressive results. What sort of hardware are you
> running?
>
> As my performance test showed, on a single PIII650 I was able to generate on
> average about 4.5million page hits a day (on a simple login process
> anyways).
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Holmes, George (TWIi London) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 1:14 AM
> > To: Orion-Interest
> > Subject: RE: Orion in production
> >
> >
> > www.opengolf.com
> >
> > This is the official web site for the British Open Golf
> > tournament. Did 30
> > million page impressions/day (ish) for the four days of the Open.
> >
> > George
> >
> > GEORGE HOLMES
> >
> > TWI Interactive
> > Media House
> > Burlington Lane
> > LONDON
> > W4 2TH
> > ENGLAND
> >
> > TEL: +44 208 233 5631
> > FAX: +44 208 233 7701
> > CELL: +44 7968 918813
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Juan Lorandi (Chile) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 19 October 2000 22:13
> > To: Orion-Interest
> > Subject: Orion in production
> >
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have been using orion for about 6 months now, and now, as
> > I'm finishing my
> > app, I need to sell orion to my customers...
> > For this, it would be *VERY* valuable to have a list of sites (on the
> > internet or intranets) which use orion...
> >
> > So, basically, what I have in mind is that anybody on this
> > list that wishes
> > to report a site as being partiallly/fully powered by orion,
> > report it to my email address, [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that I
> > can make a list
> > of these, to publish it on WWW
> >
> > I think this will prove useful for us all.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > JP
> >
>
