On 8/29/2013 12:08 PM, Jared Griffith wrote:
Is it more ideal to run the Jetty containers as opposed to running Tomcat with the Solr war?
If I answer "yes" to that question, it's not really the whole story. Just like the "vi vs. emacs" battle, it can become almost a religious debate. Having said that, generally speaking, jetty is more ideal for Solr than Tomcat.
Jetty is the only container that receives official testing. Anytime anyone runs Solr unit tests after checking out the source code, Jetty gets tested. Tomcat only gets tested when users install Solr in it. Bugs related to tomcat are sometimes found. They are relatively rare, but they do happen.
If a user really knows tomcat internals and how to tune it for specific applications, they could probably make their tomcat Solr install run circles around Jetty.
The Jetty install that comes with Solr, in addition to being stripped of all unnecessary features, has been lightly tuned so it works better with Solr than a stock Jetty. It will have less memory overhead than a stock Tomcat, because it's smaller.
Thanks, Shawn
