Tomcat + JDK 1.4 + FreeBSD

[Thomas M. Duffey]

Hi Fred,

Fred McCann wrote:

> I would like to run tomcat in production on FreeBSD and I'm currently 
> trying to weigh that vs. running it on some distribution of linux. Is 
> anyone on the list currently using java on FreeBSD? If so what are you 
> seeing for performance and how are you running java? Is it one of the 
> linux 1.4 jdks running in linux compatibility mode? Is anyone running 
> the native BSD port?

This might not help since you're interested in JDK 1.4 but I've been 
using FreeBSD 4.x in production with the Diablo JDK 1.3.1 and Tomcat 
4.1.x for over a year now with no trouble at all.  This server is 
running numerous Jahia sites and a custom webapp with low-to medium 
traffic, serving about 200MB of data per day.

Tomcat and its webapps are a bit sluggish to startup but this is most 
likely due to the server itself and not the OS or JDK.  All of this is 
running on a virtual server from Verio.  Performance is much better on 
our local development servers, but I have never done a head-to-head 
comparison against Linux.

Hope this helps,

Tom Duffey
Homeboyz Interactive