GlassFish Web Stack and other topics Jeff Trawick

drives me absolutely up the wall!!!

Basically, all I do all day is review slide decks.  Day after day after day.  (The paperclip icon in Thunderbird makes my heart race.)  Anyway, today I'm walking through yet another slide deck when I get to a slide that starts out like this:

Apache Specific Tuning
 ListenBacklog 16384
 ServerLimit 8192
 MaxClients 8192
 MaxRequestsPerChild 0
 StartServers 128
 MinSpareServers 20
 MaxSpareServers 128

There's no further information!  That's the end!  Really!

/dev/tcp is ROTFL thinking about that ListenBacklog directive.  The swapper is looking for some extra volumes.  fork() and kill() and exit() are trying to get a room at the beach for the weekend.

It started to feel like I had held a match in my hand way too long as I started typing a furious response (which I had to delete).  I tried a slightly more tactful approach and had to delete that too.  After walking around the house five or ten times, I came back in and responded with a suggestion that I could cover that material properly at the Web Stack Deep Dive session at CommunityOne West in San Francisco next Wednesday.  He agreed.  Wish me luck!

Earlier today while I was trying to poke holes in the Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux builds of the upcoming GlassFish Web Stack 1.5 release and (hopefully) figuring out how to solve a mod_perl/mod_security2 clash, my wife had lunch with friends and brought back a newly released album from an area jazz band that includes our friend Thomas Taylor.

The album is Stickadiboom by the Steve Haines Quintet + Jimmy Cobb (yes, that Jimmy Cobb). This is quite an impressive work. Steve is a string bass player, and the composer of most of the songs on the album. He has some solos that I am enjoying a great deal; some stretches remind me of the work by Eddie Gomez on Chick Corea's Three Quartets album (alas, this is perhaps because I haven't heard that much memorable, melodic bass).

All these guys are in top form, and everything fits together perfectly.  The band plays really tight on these songs; I expect that this is the nature of the compositions plus a great deal of sweat.  (The songs themselves are quite memorable; I'm sure that other groups will be playing some of these in the future.)  We saw Steve and Thomas with a different group of musicians recently, including a few walk ons; it came together after a fashion, and everyone had fun.  But with this album we get to hear them in a totally different, serious setting.  These are performances to be proud of.

If you like jazz, listen to the samples on the web!

visual guide to setting up AMP on OpenSolaris and Solaris 10 with the GlassFish Web Stack