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It seems that active development of Winstone stopped some time ago. Since Jetty can do even more I'm going to investigate switching. Based on my brief conversation with Jesse I'm going to hold off for 7.6.0 since I know they're working to fix a couple of HTTPs issues. I'll start the deployment on the sandbox and if that goes well we can push it out to the main instance. -M.
+1 IMO Winstone is used by Husdon only for local needs, no for real production environment..
+1 My team has been using Jetty. I asked for opinions and got feedback like "lightweight and snappy", "works well", etc.
+1 we have good experience running Hudson and Jenkins on Jetty
This sounds like a reasonable change, but one beauty of a stable/defunct project is that it does not encourage regular "upgrades" which can result in regressions etc. Therefore, I would suggest picking a tried and trusted level of Jetty and sticking with it as long as possible rather than upgrading regularly as Jetty evolves. Perhaps that's what was intended anyway?
Well I'm looking at Jetty because it's becoming clear that Winstone just can't handle this. We don't tend to rush any updates aside from security patches(if it isn't broke don't fix it). -M.
I'm having some difficulties getting Jetty 7.6 and Hudson to play together nicely. I've touched base with the Jetty folks to see if they have any insight into what's happening. -M.
Thanks to the advice of both the Jetty and Hudson teams I've managed to get the sandbox up and running on Jetty. I'll leave it cook for a little while, and maybe after the 17th(SR2) we can look at deploying this to the main instance. -M.
(In reply to comment #7) > sandbox up and running on Jetty. I'll leave it cook for a little while, and I'll write a script that will pummel it with http get and head requests. We can then see if it handles http load better than Winstone.
Ok, I've archived and 'redeployed' the sandbox Jetty instance and things went much better. I've copied the Jetty config to the main Hudson instance and I"m just finishing making sure everything is ok. At 4pm I plan to shutdown our current Hudson instance and bring up the jetty instance. -M.
Ok, we're now Jetty powered(TM?). We may need to do some tuning with the IO threads and so on, but lets see how things go. -M.
