Re: Why the IBM i *might* not be a good web server

[Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As a side story to that. One time I was running an upgrade of some vendor
> software. The system was pegged at 100% for over 12 hours while other people
> where still using the system for a portion of that time. While it was
> slower, they could still work. Lets see any other server be able to do
> that... THAT is why I like this system.
>
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> Mike Wills
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>
> On Dec 11, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:
>
> > > From: Aaron Bartell
> > > IBM i's very nature and foundation it was built to be
> > > a multi-job/multi-user/multi-DB/multi-etc machine.
> >
> >
> > Speaking of multi-job architecture, I noticed yesterday that a client was
> > running about 6,500 active jobs on their 4-core IBM i server including
> multiple
> > instances of Apache; an Admin instance, a Zend instance, a Web Query
> Instance,
> > one for serving RPG CGI, and another for who knows what.  The log for the
> RPG
> > CGI instance indicated an average of 6 CGI requests per second average
> over a
> > period of 10 hours.  That's not counting requests for static content.
>  Thousands
> > of 5250 sessions.  Thousands of other types of workloads. I contrast that
> with
> > my 2-core Windows laptop that according to Task Manager is running just 6
> > applications, 24 processes, and 75 services.
> >
> > The appeal of running something like Wordpress under IBM i would be that
> you
> > don't have to manage a 2nd physical server.  If you bought an IBM i
> server in
> > the last 4 years, you probably have capacity to spare, without adding a
> Windows
> > server. Web technologies offer a future for IBM i. I question whether the
> > platform would survive if it were relegated to just 5250 and DB
> workloads.
> > One appeal of running native Web workloads under IBM i is the unmatched
> > integration with legacy systems and data. In the last decade we witnessed
> a lot
> > of new workloads deployed under Windows and Linux for applications like
> approval
> > & routing, document management, business intelligence, dashboards,
> > reporting, and so forth.  During the coming decade I envision those types
> of
> > workloads embedded right into mainline systems.  For example, we provide
> a
> > screen for schools to maintain student records.  Once a student record is
> > selected, a link offers a view of student's entire school transcript in
> HTML
> > format.  Another link to transform it to XML so it can be forwarded to a
> Web
> > service that makes it available to Colleges anywhere, and another link to
> > generate a condensed PDF.  In the past, user's may have relied on an
> external
> > server and an external interface to generate those types of documents,
> but in
> > the future that function will be embedded into mainline systems.
> >
> > -Nathan
> >
> >
> >
> >
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