Clustering for load balancing

[tlsilcankln]

Hi Guys, 

I am planning to improve our Jasper server performance and I have 2 questions to ask:

1. will Linux Server better than Windows 7 Professional on a PC grade machine with 4 Gb ram?

2. if I plan a clustering approach to use less powerful pcs to load balance request, is it possible to add mixed platform jasper report server to cluster node. i.e. same server setting , including the version, but different os (e.g. windows 7, Centos Linux)

all comments are welcome.

thanks!

 

[hozawa]

Linux platform tends to out perform MS Windows runnning the same application server.

JasperReports Server does not in itself suppport clustering so it's necessary to have clustered application server. If the application server can cluster using different OS, then it's OK.