Hi Russ,
To be pretty honest - I would suggest you skip the packaged versions and use your own init scripts and the war with the inbuilt winstone container. As for which distro - if you take the above advice it depends on you. Pretty much anything recent will have a good enough kernel and the reset is just java. I use CentOS, but I prefer to admin debian - but work is RH/CentOS. If you are thinking of support then make sure that whatever you choose is covered by your support vendor. Whichever you choose you can always choose not to install the defaults but install just what you want (but having things installed should not be an issue - just don;t start the services and install root on cheaper HDD and then have your JENKINS_HOME on the SSD Don'f forget to replace those SSDs early before they wear out :-) /James On Friday, 25 January 2013 20:18:12 UTC, Russ Tremain wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone have suggestions for the best linux production > environment for jenkins? > > I want to run a trimmed down server optimized for web performance. > > In the past, I've always run jenkins under tomcat, but am open to > other suggestions. > > Looking for specific version info for distros & tomcat. > > Will run on vmware infrastructure with outrageous (SSD-based) i/o > performance. > > tia, > -Russ >
