Well, I cannot say anything about AIX. I have the suspicion that the issue is with the IBM JDK that is causing me headaches. Write once, run anywhere my arse!
How did you know it was a Vice President who came up with the idea for the migration!? :) On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:08:56 -0800 (PST), John Najarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > LOL! > > Ben, that was to funny. I was just talking with a useless VP at Fidelity > over the weekend and he was saying how stable & great AIX was. I laugh my > butt off thinking some neanderthal of technology can comment on things they > know nothing about like that. He hasn't done anything technical in years and > I don't know if he used Unix of any flavor. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Ricker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Feb 3, 2005 1:22 PM > To: Tomcat Users List <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>, > Tomcat Users List <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>, > Tomcat Users List <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Preferred Platform for Tomcat5 > > I have one word of advice: DON'T USE AIX! I am in the middle of a > (forced) migration from Solaris to AIX and it sucks ball peen hammers. > > The Solaris installs were running like a top for over a year. In > another incarnation, I have Tomcat running for 4 years with nary an > issue (just some issues with OOM errors when the DB started hanging on > bad SQL). > > Ben Ricker > > On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:44:20 -0600, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've usually used different distros of Linux. Mainly Slackware (8.x, > > 9.x & 10.x) for 32bit x86 machines and Fedora Core 3 x86_64 on the > > Opteron systems. I do stripped down installs, no X, no sound, etc.., > > basically installing only what the server needs. > > > > So far so good. The Slackware boxes have been running flawless for a > > few years and have been updated from Tomcat 3.x up to 4.x numerous times > > without problems. Actually for production I only have Tomcat 5 on the > > new FC3 machines, but I do have it on a Slackware development box and > > haven't had an issue. > > > > All boxes are blazingly fast, but our bottleneck is usually mysql, not > > tomcat. > > > > Slackware boxes > > P4 3.06G w/ HT & 1-2GB ram > > 2.4.2x kernels > > s/w raid 0, mysql 4.0.x, jdk1.4.2, tomcat 4.1.x > > 2-4 7.2K RPM PATA drives > > > > FC3 boxes > > Tyan S2882 boards w/ two 242 Opterons & 4-6GB RAM > > 3ware 9500S RAID controller (using raid5) > > 6+ 10K RPM SATA drives > > mysql 4.1.x & jdk1.5.x & tomcat 5.0.x > > > > Regards, > > > > -Paul > > > > > > Todd Reed wrote: > > > > >Excluding Windows, is there a particular platform that works better with > > >Tomcat5? What are members of this list using for a production > > >installation of Tomcat? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > Ben Ricker > He's just this guy, you know? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Ben Ricker He's just this guy, you know? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
