Re: java, jdk, blackdown & redhat

[Heikki Korpela <heko@saitti.net>]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Henning Brauer wrote:

> 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).

Haa! This is something to tell to my colleagues who insist on not using
BSD for its Java support. :-)

I've used servlet runners without problems on BSD this far, as I said -
and I've also spent a good number of nights hacking on mysterious
Hotspot crashes and less mysterious performance problems of Java on
Linux.

> 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...

Yes.

What I really don't get is why people insist on implementing things
with tools that are totally unsuitable for the task. A major subset
of 'tools' here is programming languages.

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