Re: Tomcat 8 reliability/performance on Windows 2008 R2 Server vs. RHEL/CentOS

2015-10-02 Thread Justin
> how one can check logs under win I'm late to the conversation but can recommend tools that I use: MSYS2 (msys2.github.io) and WinTail (tailforwindows.org). The former uses pacman as a package manager to manage grep, sed, curl, ssh, gcc, clang, and much more and does not have the GPL restrictio

Re: Tomcat 8 reliability/performance on Windows 2008 R2 Server vs. RHEL/CentOS

2015-10-02 Thread Frederik Nosi
On 10/02/2015 10:10 PM, Frederik Nosi wrote: Christopher, On 10/02/2015 09:40 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Frederik, On 10/2/15 12:29 PM, Frederik Nosi wrote: On 10/02/2015 01:05 PM, David kerber wrote: On 10/2/2015 3:47 AM, Mark Thomas wrot

Re: Tomcat 8 reliability/performance on Windows 2008 R2 Server vs. RHEL/CentOS

2015-10-02 Thread Frederik Nosi
Christopher, On 10/02/2015 09:40 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Frederik, On 10/2/15 12:29 PM, Frederik Nosi wrote: On 10/02/2015 01:05 PM, David kerber wrote: On 10/2/2015 3:47 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: On 02/10/2015 00:39, Jason Britton wrote:

Re: Tomcat 8 reliability/performance on Windows 2008 R2 Server vs. RHEL/CentOS

2015-10-02 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Frederik, On 10/2/15 12:29 PM, Frederik Nosi wrote: > On 10/02/2015 01:05 PM, David kerber wrote: >> On 10/2/2015 3:47 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: >>> On 02/10/2015 00:39, Jason Britton wrote: >>> >>> >>> And if Mark says there shouldn't be probl

Re: Tomcat 8 reliability/performance on Windows 2008 R2 Server vs. RHEL/CentOS

2015-10-02 Thread Frederik Nosi
On 10/02/2015 01:05 PM, David kerber wrote: On 10/2/2015 3:47 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: On 02/10/2015 00:39, Jason Britton wrote: And if Mark says there shouldn't be problems, I think that is some implicit guarantee of free support from him ;) :) Bugs with reproducible tests cases are alwa

Re: Tomcat 8 reliability/performance on Windows 2008 R2 Server vs. RHEL/CentOS

2015-10-02 Thread David kerber
On 10/2/2015 3:47 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: On 02/10/2015 00:39, Jason Britton wrote: And if Mark says there shouldn't be problems, I think that is some implicit guarantee of free support from him ;) :) Bugs with reproducible tests cases are always welcome. I have a lot of convenience shell

Re: Tomcat 8 reliability/performance on Windows 2008 R2 Server vs. RHEL/CentOS

2015-10-02 Thread Mark Thomas
On 02/10/2015 00:39, Jason Britton wrote: > And if Mark says there shouldn't > be problems, I think that is some implicit guarantee of free support from > him ;) :) Bugs with reproducible tests cases are always welcome. > I have a lot of convenience shell scripts here and there but nothing I

Re: Tomcat 8 reliability/performance on Windows 2008 R2 Server vs. RHEL/CentOS

2015-10-01 Thread Jason Britton
OP here. I really appreciate the objective well thought out responses, this community has never disappointed me. A more qualified list of respondents I will not find elsewhere. George I should have said Windows Server 2012 R2. A lot of our Windows servers are still 2008 R2 but any new ones that

Re: Tomcat 8 reliability/performance on Windows 2008 R2 Server vs. RHEL/CentOS

2015-10-01 Thread Aurélien Terrestris
Howard, I didn't say this was not running well on Windows, but that it seems easier (less work) on Linux for the same result. If you're expecting "secured" Tomcats, you'll run your windows service with a service account. This means that you will have to set up properly the rights for this account

Re: Tomcat 8 reliability/performance on Windows 2008 R2 Server vs. RHEL/CentOS

2015-10-01 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jason, On 9/30/15 4:23 PM, Jason Britton wrote: > Hello Good People - We currently have multiple Tomcat instances > deployed on RHEL in production with no issues but I am getting > asked why we shouldn't migrate everything to run on Windows 2008 R2

Re: Tomcat 8 reliability/performance on Windows 2008 R2 Server vs. RHEL/CentOS

2015-10-01 Thread Howard W. Smith, Jr.
On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Aurélien Terrestris wrote: > I recommend Linux for 2 reasons : > - easier to install and maintain a secured Tomcat (especially when > using different TOMCAT_HOME & TOMCAT_BASE, on Windows it's pretty > difficult to know how to secure all directories correctly) ;

Re: Tomcat 8 reliability/performance on Windows 2008 R2 Server vs. RHEL/CentOS

2015-10-01 Thread Aurélien Terrestris
I recommend Linux for 2 reasons : - easier to install and maintain a secured Tomcat (especially when using different TOMCAT_HOME & TOMCAT_BASE, on Windows it's pretty difficult to know how to secure all directories correctly) ; if you have to deal with file uploading, you don't want a system which

Re: Tomcat 8 reliability/performance on Windows 2008 R2 Server vs. RHEL/CentOS

2015-10-01 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 01:23:14PM -0700, Jason Britton wrote: > Hello Good People - > We currently have multiple Tomcat instances deployed on RHEL in production > with no issues but I am getting asked why we shouldn't migrate everything > to run on Windows 2008 R2 Server instead. My stomach churn

Re: Tomcat 8 reliability/performance on Windows 2008 R2 Server vs. RHEL/CentOS

2015-10-01 Thread David kerber
On 10/1/2015 9:57 AM, George Sexton wrote: ... but I am looking for more concrete information about why this could be problematic vs. running Tomcat on RHEL/CentOS. My gut says far more Tomcat deployments in production are done on top of Linux based OS's vs. Windows. Any thoughts on making an

Re: Tomcat 8 reliability/performance on Windows 2008 R2 Server vs. RHEL/CentOS

2015-10-01 Thread George Sexton
On 9/30/2015 2:23 PM, Jason Britton wrote: Hello Good People - We currently have multiple Tomcat instances deployed on RHEL in production with no issues but I am getting asked why we shouldn't migrate everything to run on Windows 2008 R2 Server instead. My stomach churns at the thought Aside

Re: Tomcat 8 reliability/performance on Windows 2008 R2 Server vs. RHEL/CentOS

2015-09-30 Thread tomcat
On 30.09.2015 22:23, Jason Britton wrote: Hello Good People - We currently have multiple Tomcat instances deployed on RHEL in production with no issues but I am getting asked why we shouldn't migrate everything to run on Windows 2008 R2 Server instead. My stomach churns at the thought but I am l

Re: Tomcat 8 reliability/performance on Windows 2008 R2 Server vs. RHEL/CentOS

2015-09-30 Thread Mark Thomas
On 30 September 2015 21:23:14 BST, Jason Britton wrote: >Hello Good People - >We currently have multiple Tomcat instances deployed on RHEL in >production >with no issues but I am getting asked why we shouldn't migrate >everything >to run on Windows 2008 R2 Server instead. My stomach churns at the

Tomcat 8 reliability/performance on Windows 2008 R2 Server vs. RHEL/CentOS

2015-09-30 Thread Jason Britton
Hello Good People - We currently have multiple Tomcat instances deployed on RHEL in production with no issues but I am getting asked why we shouldn't migrate everything to run on Windows 2008 R2 Server instead. My stomach churns at the thought but I am looking for more concrete information about w