Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
On Jan 5, 2006, at 2:24 PM, Tim Funk wrote:
Interesting. In enterprise environments, I also hear it common to
see antivirus software also run on windows servers too. (Yes, you
read that correctly) I'd be curious to see how much or a
performance decrease there is when one is turned on.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll add that to the list for future tests.
Also a Tomcat 5.5.12 (or better 5.5.15) with and without APR test
against recent IBM, Sun, and BEA offerings would be really nice :-)
There seems to be a silly notion out there that because you pay for
commercial offerings they'll automatically make any web application run
significantly faster and scale significantly better than just running it
in Tomcat with the same resources. I'm not saying that paying for a
commercial offering gets you nothing, but:
1. There's no reason to assume that one of the things it buys you is
performance and scalability on the same server resources.
2. There's no reason to assume that anything it does buy you in these
terms is significant when compared to theh performance/scalability
impact of your web application's own code -- time spent optimizing
your own code might buy you a lot more than the most expensive
servlet engine ever could...
--
Jess Holle
