On 03/09/15 22:56, Xiao wrote: > Hi, Jay, > > Thank you! > > The Kafka document shows “Kafka should run well on any unix system". I assume > it includes the major two Unix versions, IBM AIX and HP-UX. Right?
FWIW I have had good success running Kafka under load on FreeBSD. I was using OpenJDK-8, and ZFS as my underlying filesystem (which supports lz4 block level compression). FreeBSD supports the sendfile() system call much like Linux does, and if AIX and HP-UX also support this you may be OK. It's been a while since I've used those Unix systms so YMMV there. The one suggestion for AIX would be to use IBM's JDK/JRE as I am sure it has been optimized for Power processors. Obviously this precludes doing extensive load and failover testing before even considering running it in production - but I did not run into any issues using FreeBSD in my lab. Cheers, -pete -- Pete Wright Systems Architect Rubicon Project pwri...@rubiconproject.com 310.309.9298
