Re: [WAY OT] Re: PL/java? - Mailing list pgsql-general
From | Alex Knight |
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Subject | Re: [WAY OT] Re: PL/java? |
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Msg-id | MAEFKNDLAHNIFMAIEGHJEEMPCDAA.knight@phunc.com Whole thread Raw |
In response to | Re: [WAY OT] Re: PL/java? (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>) |
List | pgsql-general |
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/ > > > >---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > >TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? > > > >http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl > > > > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org) > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026
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