Re: Tomcat efficiency (was: RE: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server)

2011-06-13 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff, On 6/13/2011 4:41 PM, Jeff Sturm wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Bill Miller [mailto:millebi.subscripti...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 3:58 PM >> Enlighten me: what is "the" reason that this is common practice? >

Re: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server

2011-06-13 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill, This is fun. On 6/13/2011 3:58 PM, Bill Miller wrote: >>> Enlighten me: what is "the" reason that this is common practice? > > The most obvious reason for having HTTP server in front of an > Application Server (Tomcat) is that there are many t

Re: Tomcat efficiency (was: RE: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server)

2011-06-13 Thread Peter Crowther
On 13 June 2011 21:41, Jeff Sturm wrote: > > From: Bill Miller [mailto:millebi.subscripti...@gmail.com] > > -Static image serving (much more economical because the HTTP server is > much lighter > > "weight" than a JVM/App server) -etc... > > [...] I just tried a trivial benchmark of a static fil

Tomcat efficiency (was: RE: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server)

2011-06-13 Thread Jeff Sturm
> -Original Message- > From: Bill Miller [mailto:millebi.subscripti...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 3:58 PM > > >> Enlighten me: what is "the" reason that this is common practice? ... > -Static image serving (much more economical because the HTTP server is much > lighter > "we

RE: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server

2011-06-13 Thread Bill Miller
an HTTP server? Bill -Original Message- From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Sent: June 13, 2011 3:44 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sriram, On 6/11/2011 4

Re: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server

2011-06-13 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sriram, On 6/11/2011 4:00 AM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Christopher Schultz > wrote: > Sriram, > > On 6/10/2011 1:49 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: Having one application serve static content, and having other

Re: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server

2011-06-11 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> From: Sriram Narayanan [mailto:sriram...@gmail.com] >> Subject: Re: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server > >> I myself agree that common practice is not the same as best practice, >> t

RE: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server

2011-06-11 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Sriram Narayanan [mailto:sriram...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server > I myself agree that common practice is not the same as best practice, > though in my experience as a developer + sysadmin for the past few > years, it is

Re: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server

2011-06-11 Thread Sriram Narayanan
I re-read my own responses. It looks like some context has not come across in the non-interative nature of email. I myself agree that common practice is not the same as best practice, though in my experience as a developer + sysadmin for the past few years, it is indeed ideal to separate the servi

Re: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server

2011-06-11 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Christopher Schultz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sriram, > > On 6/10/2011 1:49 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: >> Having one application serve static content, and having other >> applications serve other content (accept http requests, pe

Re: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server

2011-06-10 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sriram, On 6/10/2011 1:49 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > Having one application serve static content, and having other > applications serve other content (accept http requests, perform some > processing, and send back responses, for e.g.), is actually

Re: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server

2011-06-10 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck, On 6/9/2011 9:40 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> From: Anand HS [mailto:anan...@gmail.com] >> Subject: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server > >> We plan to use tomcat to let users download static content >> ( media, execut

Re: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server

2011-06-10 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> From: Caldarale, Charles R >> Subject: RE: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server > >> > We plan to use tomcat to let users download static content >> > ( media, executables etc.. ).

Re: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server

2011-06-09 Thread Anand HS
bject: RE: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server > > > > We plan to use tomcat to let users download static content > > > ( media, executables etc.. ). > > > As much as I like Tomcat, I have to think it might be more > > appropriate to use Apach

RE: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server

2011-06-09 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Caldarale, Charles R > Subject: RE: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server > > We plan to use tomcat to let users download static content > > ( media, executables etc.. ). > As much as I like Tomcat, I have to think it might be more > appropr

Re: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server

2011-06-09 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> From: Anand HS [mailto:anan...@gmail.com] >> Subject: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server > >> We plan to use tomcat to let users download static content >> ( media, executables etc.. ). > > As much as I like Tomcat,

RE: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server

2011-06-09 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Anand HS [mailto:anan...@gmail.com] > Subject: Optimal Settings to use Tomcat as a HTTP File Server > We plan to use tomcat to let users download static content > ( media, executables etc.. ). As much as I like Tomcat, I have to think it might be more appropriate to use Apache httpd ra