Hi Kyle, have you tried jikes? I would recommend it as build compiler! Is Linux an option? My own experience is that a Pentium 4 makes a difference. Are you talking about PIII or PIV with your W2K-Machine. Are you using Sun or IBM JDK? I don't know for the compiler, but normally IBM is faster.
Regards, Michael -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Kyle Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 27. Februar 2002 16:07 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Win2K vs Sun Some background: my company is migrating all of our mainframe applications to Java. Our integration builds (think continuous integration) currently produce about 200 jars (with more being added every week), run twice a day, and take ~50 min on the WinNT 4 workstation they're running on. We're moving the integration build to a server so we can build faster, build more, and build more frequently. We're looking at running the builds on a server running either Solaris 2.8 or Win2K, but we don't have much (any) experience running large Java builds on a high-end machine. My question to ant users out there - what are your experiences running large builds on either of these two platforms? Does either one seem inherently better performance-wise for Java builds? Why? Here are the results from our preliminary testing: Baseline (current) workstation WinNT 4, 512 MB RAM, 750 MHz processor Here are the specs on platforms under consideration: Compaq Proliant 380DL, Generation 2 Win2K, 2GB RAM, Dual 1.2 Ghz processors Sun Netra T1 Solaris 2.8, 1GB RAM, 440 MHz processor Sun E450 Solaris 2.8, 2GB RAM, Quad 480 MHz processors Results of building a test suite on each platform, using JDK 1.3 and javac: Baseline: 14 min Compaq: 7.5 min Netra T1: 23 min E450: 21 min The dual processors on the Compaq both took about a 58% load during the build, while the processors on both the baseline and Netra T1 took a 100% load. The E450 showed a single processor taking a 100% load, with no load on the other processors. It was kind of surprising to see both Sun boxes run slower than the baseline WinNT 4 workstation. That's why I'm looking for advice from others who have experience running large Java builds. Thanks, Kyle Adams Java Developer Gordon Food Service -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
