Ubuntu Stability For Trading

[John Law]

Hi

> I am setting up some trading desks for a newly set up fund. Our
> trading platform runs entirely on Java in web browsers. I am
> considering if Ubuntu is stable enough for such a task or would other
> distros, BSDs be a better choice.
>
> The desk would be used by traders to place trades and not for
> algorithmic trading. It would based on Intel i5, 8G RAM and 2
> monitors.

I have set up the PCs. As the systems are using SSDs and the trading
platform is run only within Firefox and Chromium, I have modified
Firefox to set its cache under /dev/shm/firefox-cache and added the
following lines to fstab (read from various articles):

tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=0755 0 0
tmpfs /var/log/apt tmpfs defaults,noatime 0 0
tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs defaults,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=10m,mode=1777 0 0
tmpfs /var/run tmpfs defaults,nosuid,size=10m,mode=0755 0 0
tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs defaults,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults,nosuid,nodev 0 0
tmpfs /home/tradingone/.cache/chromium tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777

Can someone comment on the setup so far?


John