Which Linux Distro for Best Performance of JIRA

[Arda Güven]

We want to try JIRA for our IT teams and we are newbie about JIRA. Which Linux distro is the best choice for performance of JIRA to fit JIRA to our limited resources?

There are 2 options for us. CentOS and Ubuntu. I read an article that says "Atlassian uses CentOS for their applications". Is that true and why?

[Johan Soetens _Dumblefy_]

Hi Arda,

Atlassian tests the Linux installer on CentOS.

On AWS they even use Amazon Linux.

Performance will really depend on your configuration.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Given identical hardware, it's usually hard to tell much difference by distribution.  You'll see a bigger difference in performance caused by type of distribution over which one. 

For example, CentOS vs Ubuntu - you'll struggle to see much difference, but you might find a CentOS "server" install works a tiny but faster than a CentOS "Desktop".  That would be down to the server installation simply running less stuff than a Desktop (but, of course, it could be the other way around!). 

On the same principle, you'll probably find Gentoo or Arch faster again.  Because they're built for your system and can be told to run even less stuff, they free more resource for applications.  I tend to run things on "minimal" servers nowadays - machines built to do the absolute minimum and then only the services I need on top of a minimal OS.