Is openjdk-17 suitable for jicofo and jitsi-videobridge2 on Debian 11?

Install & Config
#1

Greetings. On a freshly installed Debian 11 system I did this today:

apt-get install jitsi-meet

and to my surprise, openjdk-17-jre-headless got installed.

This package is available in Debian 11, but it’s not the default/recommended jre version in Debian 11 (that would be
openjdk-11-jre-headless as a dependency of default-jre-headless).

The reason for this is that jitsi-meet depends on java8-runtime-headless | java8-runtime | java11-runtime-headless | java11-runtime which are purely virtual packages provided by openjdk-17-jre-headless.

Simple question: Is jicofo and videobridge actually known to work with openjdk-17, or should this considered a packaging glitch? (i.e. not really intended openjdk-17 to be installed).

Thanks.

#2

Even they may work, you may see problems when using java 17. For sure under load the bridge is not tuned for the java 17 GC.

#3

I’ve found that latest (28 Jan 2022) jicofo_1.0-846-1_all.deb and jitsi-videobridge2_2.1-617-ga8b39c3f-1_all.deb were build using Java 11. Does it mean Java 11 is preferred over Java 8 now? I’m asking in term of stability and optimization according to your post here. Thanks.

#4

Yes you can run everything with java 11. That post is almost two years old :slight_smile:

#5

Hmm, just to be sure: does this “everything” include jibri, or just jicofo and videobridge?

#6

Everything, everything.