On 1/5/06, Jess Holle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Czeiszperger wrote: > > > On Jan 5, 2006, at 2:24 PM, Tim Funk wrote: > > > >> Interesting. In enterprise environments, I also hear it common to > >> see antivirus software also run on windows servers too. (Yes, you > >> read that correctly) I'd be curious to see how much or a > >> performance decrease there is when one is turned on. > > > > Thanks for the suggestion. I'll add that to the list for future tests. > > Also a Tomcat 5.5.12 (or better 5.5.15) with and without APR test > against recent IBM, Sun, and BEA offerings would be really nice :-) > > There seems to be a silly notion out there that because you pay for > commercial offerings they'll automatically make any web application run > significantly faster and scale significantly better than just running it > in Tomcat with the same resources. I'm not saying that paying for a > commercial offering gets you nothing, but: > > 1. There's no reason to assume that one of the things it buys you is > performance and scalability on the same server resources. > 2. There's no reason to assume that anything it does buy you in these > terms is significant when compared to theh performance/scalability > impact of your web application's own code -- time spent optimizing > your own code might buy you a lot more than the most expensive > servlet engine ever could...
Well, I guess you could sponsor a study from the webperformance folks to find out if you're really interested ;) -- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Rémy Maucherat Developer & Consultant JBoss Group (Europe) SàRL xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
