"Rumpa Giri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I had 2 questions regarding tomcat configuration: > > 1) We are currently trying to reconfigure our IIS to point to the tomcats > as follows: > > We will have 4 web servers. And 3 app servers each running 4 tomcat > instance each configured to only have AJP connectors. In total 12 tomcat > instance running in total. > And each web server is going to point to all the 12 tomcats for failover > at the web server layer. Is there any downside to such a configuration? > Earlier we had one web server point to only one app server running 4 > instances. > > 2) In the > <!-- Define a Coyote/JK2 AJP 1.3 Connector on port 8009 --> > <Connector port="8009" > enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" debug="0" > protocol="AJP/1.3" /> > > I can define one more attribute named maxProcessors. > > A maxProcessors value of zero (0) signifies that the number of > processors is unlimited. If not specified, this atttribute defaults > to 20. > > In the documentation it mentions for the [maxProcessors] "This should be > set to a value that is greater than or equal to the maximum number > of concurrent connections the remote web server can open to Tomcat > simultaneously." > > In the configuration described above(1), since all the webservers are > going to point to all the tomcat instances, we are thinking of putting > [maxProcessors value of zero (0) ] in the AJP connector. Is there any > disadvantage to that? >
The main disadvantage is that the docs are wrong ;-). If you are using the APR Connector, then you need maxProcessors="-1" to achieve this. If you are using the Java Connector, then 0 gets changed to 200. > Thanks, > Rumpa Giri > > > --------------------------------- > Blab-away for as little as 1ยข/min. Make PC-to-Phone Calls using Yahoo! > Messenger with Voice. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
