Re: [WAY OT] Re: PL/java?

I'm interested to see the results,

Cheers.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 9:16 AM
To: Lincoln Yeoh
Cc: Gunnar Ronning; Alex Knight; Alex Pilosov;
pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] [WAY OT] Re: PL/java?



This is a valid concern for Solaris and I wish we had an answer.  I am
going to contact some Sun people to see if I can figure out a
workaround.


> Just curious about one thing.
>
> How was the perl app implemented?
>
> It seems Solaris doesn't do/fork processes very well which is why Sun
> pushes threads.
>
> Whereas *BSD and Linux do processes about as well as Solaris does threads.
>
> Postgresql doesn't do so well on our Solaris 2GB box as it does on a 128MB
> Linux x86 box.
>
> I haven't compared MySQL (threaded) on Solaris vs Linux.
>
> Cheerio,
> Link.
>
> At 12:29 PM 9/1/01 +0200, Gunnar R?nning wrote:
> >* "Alex Knight" <knight@phunc.com> wrote:
> >|
> >| IMHO, scalability is incredibly important, and perl leaves that out
often.
> >| Even with Fast-CGI style servers, perl sucks. Perl is great for admin
> >| interfaces, or low to medium traffic sites.
> >
> >We got a contract last december with a customer that were having some
> >performance problems with a perl web application. The customer has
> >access to the best perl programmers money can buy, but they could not
> >fix the performance problem.
> >
> >We came in to make version 2.0 of the system. In one month we had an
> >implementation in Java that outperformed the perl application by a factor
> >of 10. The customer could stop the leasing of three of the Sun E450
servers
> >they were previously using to run the perl application.
> >
> >We've had similar experiences in other projects. Every migration
> >we've done from Perl->Java has resulted in massive savings.
> >
> >--
> >Gunnar R?nning - gunnar@polygnosis.com
> >Senior Consultant, Polygnosis AS, http://www.polygnosis.com/
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