-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 David,
On 12/5/13, 1:33 PM, David kerber wrote: > On 12/5/2013 5:37 AM, Tapajyoti Roybarman wrote: >> Hi Andre, >> >> I apologize for not following the mailing rule. Actually this is >> the first time that I am taking the help of such a forum. >> >> Before I begin asking you anything I want to thank you for such >> a detailed explanation. >> >> To begin with, answer to your question - "why do you want to >> serve these files from Apache httpd, instead of letting Tomcat do >> it?" I am planning to use Apache httpd as a Load Balancer. And to >> improve the performance of my application, I want to serve the >> static content from apache itself. > > Keep in mind that the performance boost you get from having httpd > serving static files instead of Tomcat will be small, perhaps not > even measurable depending on the details of your configuration and > application. > > Having httpd as a load balancer is a good use of it, but having it > serve all your static files as a performance booster, not so much. Well, given that he's going to use httpd for load-balancing, I can't imagine that proxying all the static content will be as fast as duplicating that content out to the httpd instance. I'm willing to bet there is a measurable difference. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJSoM9PAAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYdMwQAJ1b5s9YvC23X4tz/X1nIbRV jXGMgJFLyx1j1CLu5rgv5ARmltpQJw604/2XgwXDudwW/7fXmeBczJcX7DH2ZqdO ll0f/ruuHJGkGHAX33LbiyeeIgR/M0eyQEhEYO4xaHFcMxkUHllA247b5+b9/Bgc cWPhhCo6fQx+pwU5himPeqXYQdvo+1R3uhjTe15V88VnptV+AEWFf75xPDjxJNtY 5pF4+HuKimOLEQj0/hwFW51u4mN7+ThvWEBg+619lp4G2omzA1ZOmALGC+3ZNAh/ 9zt1MCy43ENWU0lh/NNxFf9o3wKJp9j0sy60VVaBLJqmh8BXkca1sM2Bx32vA/TR t1rExcNsif2PzHkEcWsf0IuRhONsP8xAqq5MJh08LjdL4owkht1/NdFQYO74cuFe RS9ypl+K+cRHhZB5V6obkRgekdfnln/nLpkzxHYpwq1Pk4c8N9Rclo0zJgbAEZuM wXvdNvb+Uy48nUalXlm3ekLfR0x1RlrMDdd14R19lG4IzfFvnwWm6xNc4N04OMfj GgKCjNTVpaO5oXV94TsUldMWBKC3txF+Gc/C/D/QUAfayTTCYV+vNy4h1rYhR6u/ j4O4a+npHXpVqiDGT5rt4hyP/NtKVv1VYpVLxDJPcATOjPIkaZNYrfB+nw0fIj+M yGacb91XLmnZpPDZom+P =kkwR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
