Hi, Thanks for sharing. (FAQ'ed) Yoav Shapira Millennium Research Informatics
>-----Original Message----- >From: Sandy McArthur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 11:19 AM >To: Tomcat Developers List >Subject: Re: Tomcat Benchmarking / Load Testing > >We, University of Florida, use Tomcat 5 for our webapps when we can. >(We also use WebSphere and WebLogic when needed.) > >Our largest use of Tomcat is with our webmail cluster. You can find >some stats for that at: http://webstats.ufl.edu/webmail.ufl.edu/ (Note: >that the monthly reports are behind because of problems with analog on >AIX.) > >Yesterday during peak usage we were handling 55 request per second: >http://webstats.ufl.edu/webmail.ufl.edu/daily-2004-08-30.html#hoursum > >Our setup is 3 machines running Apache HTTPD with mod_jk load balancing >to 4 machines running Tomcat 5. While all of those machines are beefy >quad CPU boxes with between 2 to 8 gig of ram none of them are single >purpose machines. > >Our Apache HTTPD machines serve over a hundred virtual hosts, so there >are a lot of other factors which makes it hard for me to assert any >performance numbers of our tomcat setup. I can say our last problems >with our webmail setup stemmed from running out of simultaneous >connections in apache httpd when all the students returned this past >fall. The 4 boxes running tomcat is overpowered to handle any surge in >usage and I haven't seen their CPU load cross 33%. > >On Aug 31, 2004, at 9:39 AM, Gaurav Vaish wrote: > >> Can you please name a few? >> >> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 08:11:50 -0500, Peter Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> there's plenty of big sites using tomcat. They just don't say it. I >>> know several sites getting millions of page views a day using tomcat >>> just fine. > >-- >Sandy McArthur > >"Government big enough to supply everything you >need is big enough to take everything you have ... >The course of history shows that as a government >grows, liberty decreases." -- Thomas Jefferson This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
