Re: [JBoss-user] *Linux/*BSD Users

[Jozsa K. <dy...@ka...>]

Anyone can report a success using IBM's pthreads? I've tried to put it on a
few months ago, but had no success, and when I had a very quick look right
now, I see, that no current 2.4.x kernel is supported.... so I'd use some
success reports before going on with pthreads..

Christopher


On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:30:02AM -0600, Dan Christopherson wrote:
> Actually I'm surprised that you haven't gotten more responses, as I'm 
> quite certain that a number of the core developers work on linux on a 
> regular basis.
> 
> FWIW, the memory leak mentioned in the other post is fixed for 2.4.5.
> 
> Another thing to look at for running major load on linux boxen is the 
> Next Generation POSIX Threading project at IBM:
> 
> http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/pthreads/
> 
> Basically that patch gives linux an M-to-N threading model (like 
> Solaris) such that many user threads can map to a few kernel threads. 
> I've been meaning to check that out, but I really have to do a Big 
> Upgrade on the linux distro on my main box first.
> 
> -danch
> 
> Rn...@ga... wrote:
> >I saw the last postings about minerva pools for linux, and to my
> >disappointment i didnt see
> >a plethora of replies that would follow any open source project.
> >I dont mean to start a holy war over OS's but i think that the same
> >intuitive biological
> >rules that govern free software (including linux, *BSD's to name few) would
> >apply
> >to Jboss as well, so that the intersection of the communities (linux,jboss
> >in this case)
> >would be fairly large.
> >
> >We are using Jboss 2.4.4 dev (linux), jboss 2.4.3 production (solaris).
> >
> >We know that solaris has a pretty solid threading implementation, but
> >unfortunately we must dump production solaris for linux due to the cost,
> >(and performance, just to say that a celeron can beat the hell out of a
> >sparc 80 solaris box for the one tenth of the price) .
> >
> >Windows on the other head seem to perform reasonably with java,
> >but at least for us the advantages stop just right there.
> >
> >And the page http://www.jboss.org/online-manual/HTML/ch11s02.html)
> >that still exists in the site, talks about kernel 2.2!!!
> >
> >I dont imply anything... but i am wondering.
> >Well we know
> >a) Java is write once/run everywhere
> >b) Your job is to create an excellent j2ee appserver, and not linux 
> >debugging,
> >BUT
> >we also know that a) is always to be taken a second thought, and
> >that systems dont have barriers, so it is rather likely that someone tests 
> >his software on the most popular
> >platforms, and tries to make it run well.
> >
> >Uncle Sam on your advertisment talks about NOT losing money.
> >I am sure old Sam would go for linux/FreeBSD!!
> >
> >P.S.
> >Any one had good experience with native FreeBSD 4.5 java 1.3.1 and JBOSS 
> >2.4.1???? (i mean not the linux emulation port).
> >
> >Thanx and sorry for my english.
> >
> >Achilleus
> >
> >
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