[CentOS] Centos 4.3/ 64-bit: Java/ Tomcat Optimization

Thu Jun 22 02:13:39 UTC 2006
Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net>

Java eh? I guess that means memory hog?

Mostly Opterons you say...so...what are the none Opterons running? Have 
you noticed swapping on non-Opteron boxes?

Opterons have automatic memory handling advantages without tuning under 
the Linux kernel.


As for I/O, it depends on what kind of patterns you have and what kind 
of behaviour do you require. Do you have lots of files in a single 
directory? Do you require sync? What is your RAID for?

I have had plenty experience in squeezing performance out of 2.6 kernels 
but not that much with Centos 4.x boxes except for discovering that 
Centos 4.x kernels don't cut it. As to why I found out later but that 
only applies to Intel-based processors apparently...that is the bad vm 
patch Redhat applied to their kernels of which the removal will come in 
Update 4.


RHEL 4 limiting themselves to ext3 leads to there being less to try...

Anyway, I am very into optimization since that was how I did not have 
ask for extra machines for the mail server clusters that I use to watch 
over in my previous job.