The key reason not to use the Sun VM seems to be the 'Out-of-memory' issue (thread stack memory allocation) which can limit the number of threads that your system can use.
If that is not a problem, then the Sun VM seems to have better docs on the known issues. Cheers david ----- Original Message ----- From: "John "EvilJohn" Carney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'jBoss-User Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 8:51 PM Subject: RE: [JBoss-user] Best JDK for Linux > I'm convinced the Sun JVM is 'better' then the IBM JVM. This doesn't > mean faster, but speed isn't everything. > > IBM runs faster and seems to use less memory. How the hell they get > their stack use so efficient and the Array bounds check elimination so > good, I don't know. However, to be honest I'm not convinced it's > entirely stable. I can't specifically say why, but I don't think it > passes all the tests they say it does. > > On another issue, IBM won't support their JVM with anything other than > WebSphere, so if there's an issue, you're out of luck. > > John > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sundaram > Ramasamy > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 2:29 PM > To: Sacha Labourey; Tomas Lapienis > Cc: jBoss-User Mailing List > Subject: [JBoss-user] Best JDK for Linux > > Hi, > > Which is best JDK implementation for Linux Sun or IBM?. I am planning to > install in Redhat 7.2. > > > Thanks > -SR > > > > > _______________________________________________ > JBoss-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user > > > _______________________________________________ > JBoss-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user > > > > > _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user