[nycbug-talk] Notes from Trish's Talk:

[Isaac Levy]

Hi Pete,

On Jan 5, 2006, at 11:39 AM, pete wright wrote:

> Yet another lecture I am very sad to have missed :(  I will have to
> listen to the audio later today when I have a sec.  Just curious (as I
> am admining alot of tomcat servers ATM sadly on Linux though) was this
> lecture heavily FreeBSD specific or did you cover concepts that I can
> apply here my penguin environment.  I obviously know the kernel
> tunables etc. will not port easily...

Basically, I don't think much of the lecture would Apply, unless you  
are thinking of replacing the Penguin boxes with FreeBSD, and Trish  
gave a few reasons for doing so:

- FreeBSD showed notably better performance for Java applications  
over Windows and Linux platofrms, (over 40% performance increase for  
some specific network apps)

- More configurable system to adapt to the Java applications, (i.e.,  
tuning to disable system-level threading, to increase performance for  
older apps using Java 'green' threads)

- Heavy-hitting network security made simple

- Less system maintenance over time (ports, ports, ports)

That's what I got, there's bound to be much more gleaned from  
listening to the audio.

Rocket-
.ike