Jetty or Tomcat for small Linode

Question

my site is running on linode. I have got 380+ MB RAM. I need to run the web server + Solr + Postgres + memcached on the same space.

Which is best Jetty or Tomcat? It is simple, plain search server. We use Pylons for development.

Answer 1

Jetty can be set up to load only the features you need. For example you can turn off session support.

I think Jetty is better in general case either, see Jetty vs Tomcat comparison.

Answer 2

Do you really going to run memcached when you have too little memory?

Answer 3

I have used both, and found that Jetty was a heck of a lot easier to set up on CentOS. However, I have one server running with Tomcat, and it's been rock solid (on a 512MB Linode).

I've seen a tiny bit of performance improvement on Jetty for a high-volume search server, but it's nothing that would make me choose it over Tomcat for performance reasons alone...