This document discusses the OpenSolaris Web Stack, which provides a set of integrated and optimized open source web infrastructure components. It summarizes the components included in the Web Stack, how they are packaged and supported on OpenSolaris, Solaris 10, and RHEL 5. It also discusses the performance benefits of using the Web Stack on newer Intel Nehalem servers and outlines future directions.

1. OpenSolaris Web Stack
Where MySQL Meets the
Next Generation OS.
MySQL 2009 Conference & Expo
Birds of A Feather Session
Murthy Chintalapati (CVR)
Jyri Virkki
Sriram Natarajan, Brian Overstreet
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2. Agenda
1) Introducing the OpenSolaris Web Stack
2) OpenSolaris as cloud-ready, next generation web
infrastructure platform
3) Support subscriptions via GlassFish Portfolio
4) Performance
5) Future
Plus ...
Demos & How to get involved.
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3. Brief Historical Background
1) OpenSolaris Web Stack project
– Ongoing since August 2007
– Formally integrate all interesting web tier open source
projects into OpenSolaris (via native IPS packages)
2) CoolStack project
– Used to publish Solaris 10 packages of common web
infrastructure open source components
– Community effort, not a Sun product, no support
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4. Why Sun for your AMP stack?
Sun has recognized experts on the virtual team
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standing behind the Web Stack
Long-time committers and other contributors to Apache HTTP
Server and PHP
Core MySQL development
The original author of lighttpd, as well as other contributors
Memcached contributors
Ruby (and JRuby), Python (and JPython) contributors
Apache Tomcat was originally developed by Sun
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5. Why Sun for your AMP stack?
Deep experience in product integration,
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performance, QA, and support of these features
Delivering and supporting Apache HTTP Server, Tomcat, MySQL,
and more in Solaris 10
Delivering a rich and up to date set of web components with
CoolStack for Solaris 10
OpenSolaris
Understanding of the entire lifecycle
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Improving the developer experience with support for web
development from NetBeans
Rich dynamic tracing capabilities
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6. What's Web Stack?
A superset of 'AMP' (Apache + MySQL + PHP) stack
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Provides the key web tier open source projects
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integrated and tested for interoperability, as part of
the OS distribution
• Optimized for performance
• Customized to leverage all the advanced
OpenSolaris features.
• Fully supported for production deployments
(including cloud environments, viz., Amazon EC2, or
network.com)
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7. OpenSolaris Web Stack
The Complete Web Tier
Sun Web Server
Apache HTTPd
GlassFish
Lighttpd
MySQL,
Memcached
Mod_jk, perl,
PHP, Ruby, Python
MediaWiki, Drupal, Wordpress,
Squid, Tomcat
Joomla — deploy in minutes!
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8. Web Stack components
Web Stack component 1.4 1.5
Apache HTTP Server 2.2.9 2.2.11
GlassFish Enterprise v2 UR2 V2.1
lighttpd 1.4.19 1.4.21
memcached 1.2.5 1.2.5
mod_jk 1.2.25 1.2.27
mod_perl 2.0.2 2.0.4
MySQL 5.0.67 5.1.30 and 5.0.67
PHP 5.2.6 5.2.9
Python 2.5.2 2.6.1
Ruby Gems 0.9.4 1.3.1
Ruby 1.8.6 p287 1.8.7 p72
Squid 2.6.STABLE17 2.7 STABLE6
Tomcat 5.5.27 6.0.18
Hudson 1.2.x
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9. Sun GlassFish Web Stack?
Sun Glassfish Web Stack unifies Sun product
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offering under one umbrella – GlassFish Portfolio.
• 24x7 production support available on both
OpenSolaris and Solaris 10
Replaces CoolStack
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– Available on Amazon EC2 cloud deployments.
And also available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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• Same components; One product; Three platforms
• Support pricing is based on per-server annual
subscriptions – very similar to MySQL.
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10. GlassFish Portfolio: Easy to Acquire
+
MySQL Enterprise GlassFish Portfolio
(per server per year in USD) (per server per year in USD)
•Basic •Basic
$599 $ 999
•Silver •Silver
$1,999 $2,999
•Gold •Gold
$2,999 $5,999
•Platinum •Platinum
$4,999 $8,999
GlassFish Portfolio Unlimited Starting at $120,000
For the price of a single CPU of Oracle Enterprise Edition, companies with up to 1000
employees can deploy an unlimited number of GlassFish Enterprise Server, Web Stack,
Web Server, Web Space, or ESB servers with full 24x7 production support.
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11. Some of the benefits of OpenSolaris.
ZFS rocks!
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– Data management made easy w/ lightweight snapshots
Copy on write semantics; Support for native NFSv4 ACLs
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DTrace
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Improves observability of software stack
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– Diagnose most crippling performance problems
RBAC Security
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Allows delegation of parts of system administration
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tasks to users via roles.
SMF
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Self-healing for services.
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Compatibility
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Assurance of compatibility
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12. Platform Notes: OpenSolaris 2008.11
Web Stack is available via native IPS
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–No separate install required
Install most components in one go:
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pfexec pkg install amp
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Or handpick individual favorite components:
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pfexec pkg install SUNWphp52
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SUNWruby18
Fully integrated with SMF
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pfexec svcadm enable apache22
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• DTrace support included
–In Apache httpd, PHP, and Ruby.
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13. Platform Notes: Solaris 10
Same components, same versions as OpenSolaris
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• Available as SVR4 packages
• Go to www.sun.com/software/webstack and click
on “Get It!”
Unpack the downloaded file into a new directory
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•# ./install amp
(installs typical components)
Integrated with SMF
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• DTrace support included
–In Apache httpd, Ruby, PHP
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14. Platform Notes: RHEL 5
Again same components, same versions as
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OpenSolaris.
• Available as RPM packages
• As with Solaris 10, download from
www.sun.com/software/webstack
–Unpack the downloaded file into a new directory
•# ./install amp
(installs typical components)
•Full feature parity with OpenSolaris/Solaris10
–Except for features which are not available on Linux:
–No smf, no DTrace support
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15. MySQL Performance
Performance Issues with MySQL 5.0.67
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Data loads took 5-10 minutes
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– Could only support 1450 concurrent users on Olio
benchmark on X2250 server (16GB RAM, 2x quad core
AMD 1.9GHz processors)
Switched to MySQL 5.1.25
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Data loads now take seconds
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– Concurrent users up to 1900 on the same h/w (+30%)
– Master database handling 20,000 connections
MySQL 5.4 (beta) even faster
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(especially on multi-core systems)
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16. MySQL Performance Tuning
MySQL Specific Tuning
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innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 2
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–> Relaxed requirements for Web 2.0 apps vs OLTP
–> Flush log every second instead of every commit
innodb_doublewrite_disabled
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–> ZFS already provides consistency
Increased join_buffer_size to 8M
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–> Helps reduce join latency
table_open_cache = 2048
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–> Increased to support large number of threads.
Place the InnoDB write log on SSD's.
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17. Apache & PHP Tuning
Apache Specific Tuning
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ListenBacklog 16384
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ServerLimit 8192
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MaxClients 8192
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MaxRequestsPerChild 0
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StartServers 128
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MinSpareServers 20
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MaxSpareServers 128
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PHP Specific Tuning
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error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE
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– upload_tmp_dir = /tmp
– session.save_path = “/tmp/http_sessions”
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18. Web Stack Performance on Nehalem
Workload – Apache Olio/PHP
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• Servers based on Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500
• Web server + Memcached (1 system)
2 quad-core CPUs at 2.9 Ghz with 48GB main memory
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(Sun Fire X2270 server configuration)
– Hyper-threading is on – effectively 16 threads
– Apache, PHP, memcached from OpenSolaris 2008.11
Database – (3 systems)
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2 quad-core CPUs at 2.5 Ghz (Sun Fire X4170)
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– Using MySQL 5.1 Replication (1 master, 2 slaves)
– Database on internal drives (ZFS)
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19. Web Stack Nehalem configuration
Horizontal Scaling: With 2 web server, Web Stack scales to
10,000 users + 1 Million MySQL rows with 1 TB data
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20. Web Stack Performance
Scaling on Nehalem Serv-
ers
80
70
60
50
CPU Util.
CPU
40
30
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10
0
0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000
Users
Blueprint: Deploying Web 2.0 Applications on Sun Servers and the
OpenSolaris Operating System with Apache Olio/PHP Workload
http://wikis.sun.com/display/BluePrints/Deploying+Web+2.0+Applications+on+Sun+Servers+and+the+OpenSolaris+Operating+System
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21. Future Directions
Continue updating component versions to stay as
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current as release cycle permits
Releases are approximately aligned with OpenSolaris
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releases
Add selected components based on customer
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value (feedback welcome!)
Working towards fully relocatable stack via integration
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with Glassfish Update Center
Continuing on performance and scalability
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improvements, and value adds for enterprise users.
• And enhancing unique features...
–e.g. much more DTrace support coming in 1.5.
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22. Future Directions – Enterprise Manager
Dashboard
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–Server/Runtimes listing w/ status
–Message Console
–Monitoring graphs
–System-wide data
–Server level data
• Server management
–Start/Stop
–Richer monitoring at server level
–Log viewer
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23. Future Directions –
Web Stack Enterprise Manager
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24. Web Stack – More Information ...
OpenSolaris Web Stack Project:
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–http://opensolaris.org/os/project/webstack/
OpenSolaris Web Stack discussion:
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–webstack-discuss@opensolaris.org
Glassfish Web Stack product page:
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–http://www.sun.com/software/webstack/
Solaris 10/RHEL download page:
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http://www.sun.com/software/webstack/ and click on
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“Get It!”
Web Stack product forum:
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–http://forums.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=980
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25. Demos – OpenSolaris Web Stack
1> Deploy Drupal CMS in seconds!
2> MySQL data restore via ZFS timeslider
3> End-to-end observability with DTrace
(using NetBeans 6.7 PHP MS3)
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26. OpenSolaris Web Stack
webstack-discuss@opensolaris.org
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