Re: java, jdk, blackdown & redhat

[Henning Brauer <lists-openbsd@bsws.de>]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:19:03PM +0300, Heikki Korpela wrote:
> The current Java port is ok for non-critical things,

I'm running the servlet engines on our heavy loded production webservers
without any issues on redhat_base and blackdown-jdk-1.2pre-v2.
The current port does not allow more than 2000 threads unfortunately, but
this is hardly an issue for servlet engines. This number is from test i did
with a pure java chatserver (VolanoChat). The performance was ok (using the
Borland JIT as we do  on linux), but you can't go ahead 1000 connections
(=2000 threads), the jvm crashes at 1000 connections (exactly 997 or so).

> If you like OpenBSD, I suggest you help producing a native port of a
> JDK to BSD. But I wouldn't mess this up with production platforms.

Yes, there's much work to be done. Even all available JDKs for linux aren't
very good (see www.volano.com/benchmarks.html), if we were able to produce
something significantly faster and stable this is a major point for OpenBSD.
Java Servers become very popular...

> "Write once, implement everywhere."

If just the JDKs were better...
I'd be more happy with clean coded C servers and java clients insead of
the whole java server stuff, though... 


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