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

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Pete Wright
Systems Architect
Rubicon Project
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