Re: Comparing Tomcat Performance on Windows vs. Linux

2006-01-06 Thread Michael Czeiszperger
On Jan 5, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Remy Maucherat wrote: On 1/5/06, Michael Czeiszperger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 5, 2006, at 3:39 PM, Jess Holle wrote: Also a Tomcat 5.5.12 (or better 5.5.15) with and without APR test against recent IBM, Sun, and BEA offerings would be really nice :-)

Re: Comparing Tomcat Performance on Windows vs. Linux

2006-01-06 Thread Michael Czeiszperger
On Jan 5, 2006, at 3:41 PM, Duan, Nick wrote: Thanks Michael for the info. J2EE performance testing depends on many different factors. Some questions/suggestions for your consideration: 1. It wasn't clear from your report what the HW/SW spec of your test clients (load workstation).

Re: Comparing Tomcat Performance on Windows vs. Linux

2006-01-06 Thread Remy Maucherat
On 1/6/06, Michael Czeiszperger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 5, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Remy Maucherat wrote: Sorry, for the potentially redundant question, but to clarify, is the APR version of Tomcat officially released? The last time I checked it was not. I don't care either way, but we have

Re: Comparing Tomcat Performance on Windows vs. Linux

2006-01-06 Thread Michael Czeiszperger
On Jan 6, 2006, at 9:25 AM, Remy Maucherat wrote: On 1/6/06, Michael Czeiszperger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 5, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Remy Maucherat wrote: Sorry, for the potentially redundant question, but to clarify, is the APR version of Tomcat officially released? The last time I

Comparing Tomcat Performance on Windows vs. Linux

2006-01-05 Thread Michael Czeiszperger
I thought that Tomcat users would be interested to know that we just published an in-depth comparison of Tomcat performance on Windows and Linux. The articles are available here: http://webperformance.com/library/reports It describes the very different behavior of the two platforms under

Re: Comparing Tomcat Performance on Windows vs. Linux

2006-01-05 Thread Tim Funk
Interesting. In enterprise environments, I also hear it common to see antivirus software also run on windows servers too. (Yes, you read that correctly) I'd be curious to see how much or a performance decrease there is when one is turned on. -Tim Michael Czeiszperger wrote: I thought that

Re: Comparing Tomcat Performance on Windows vs. Linux

2006-01-05 Thread Michael Czeiszperger
On Jan 5, 2006, at 2:24 PM, Tim Funk wrote: Interesting. In enterprise environments, I also hear it common to see antivirus software also run on windows servers too. (Yes, you read that correctly) I'd be curious to see how much or a performance decrease there is when one is turned on.

Re: Comparing Tomcat Performance on Windows vs. Linux

2006-01-05 Thread David Kerber
Ours is more of a small-to-medium environment than it is enterprise, but we put antivirus on our servers... Tim Funk wrote: Interesting. In enterprise environments, I also hear it common to see antivirus software also run on windows servers too. (Yes, you read that correctly) I'd be curious

Re: Comparing Tomcat Performance on Windows vs. Linux

2006-01-05 Thread Jess Holle
Michael Czeiszperger wrote: On Jan 5, 2006, at 2:24 PM, Tim Funk wrote: Interesting. In enterprise environments, I also hear it common to see antivirus software also run on windows servers too. (Yes, you read that correctly) I'd be curious to see how much or a performance decrease there

Re: Comparing Tomcat Performance on Windows vs. Linux

2006-01-05 Thread Remy Maucherat
On 1/5/06, Michael Czeiszperger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that Tomcat users would be interested to know that we just published an in-depth comparison of Tomcat performance on Windows and Linux. The articles are available here: http://webperformance.com/library/reports It

Re: Comparing Tomcat Performance on Windows vs. Linux

2006-01-05 Thread Remy Maucherat
On 1/5/06, Jess Holle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Czeiszperger wrote: On Jan 5, 2006, at 2:24 PM, Tim Funk wrote: Interesting. In enterprise environments, I also hear it common to see antivirus software also run on windows servers too. (Yes, you read that correctly) I'd be curious

Re: Comparing Tomcat Performance on Windows vs. Linux

2006-01-05 Thread Michael Czeiszperger
On Jan 5, 2006, at 3:51 PM, Remy Maucherat wrote: With the usage of APR in Tomcat 5.5.x, I would say the difference will be even bigger, as APR on Linux will use more efficient IO calls than on Windows. So use Linux :) (note: please, don't use any Redhat Linux 2.4s kernels, though) Yes,

Re: Comparing Tomcat Performance on Windows vs. Linux

2006-01-05 Thread Jess Holle
Michael Czeiszperger wrote: At the enterprise level businesses pay for support, and at the highest levels of support the license the source for a product is under makes little difference to the end customer, which is why its a good business model for the likes of IBM. (Note that our own

Re: Comparing Tomcat Performance on Windows vs. Linux

2006-01-05 Thread Remy Maucherat
On 1/5/06, Michael Czeiszperger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 5, 2006, at 3:39 PM, Jess Holle wrote: Also a Tomcat 5.5.12 (or better 5.5.15) with and without APR test against recent IBM, Sun, and BEA offerings would be really nice :-) We did a previous test with tomcat against those

Re: Comparing Tomcat Performance on Windows vs. Linux

2006-01-05 Thread Remy Maucherat
On 1/5/06, ALEX HYDE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stupid question Remy but are you refering to the proces per java thread issue that had effected Linux? I am well behind the times so is this all resolved? I am soon to set-up a Tomcat server, preferably on Linux FC3 with a 2.6 kernal. Would you