David, Thanks for your comments. I've added them to the blog post for everyone's benefit.
Shane On 8/21/07, David Delbecq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Very nice. May i suggest 2 comments perhaps?: > > 6... If you're loading several applications with several of the same > library dependencies, consider moving them from the applications' > |WEB-INF/lib| directory to Tomcat's shared library > |{catalina.home}/shared/lib|. This will reduce the memory used by each > application and result in smaller WAR files. > > You should make a remark that this change the behaviour of webapp: > a) Shared classloader is searched in last ressort when looking for > classes, according to > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/class-loader-howto.html. > b) Because the classes are shared, they share config & singletons and > if they store objects statically they will prevent webapp unloading > > > 7...Consider JDK 1.5 or even better JDK 1.6 to take advantage of > performance improvements. > > Note that you can gain even more performance if you recompile your > "string concatenation hungry" (d="aaaa"+b+"ccc") support libaries for > jdk 5+ on a multi CPU system. This is because jdk5 uses the > non-synchronized stringbuilder instead of the jdk 4- synchronized > StringBuffer. And synchronization over multiple cpu takes a few more > cycles than on single CPU machines. > > > > En l'instant précis du 21/08/07 14:10, Shane Witbeck s'exprimait en ces > termes: > > I thought my latest blog post would be of interest to the people on this > > list: > > > > http://www.digitalsanctum.com/2007/08/18/20-tips-for-using-tomcat-in-production/ > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > http://www.noooxml.org/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Thank you, Shane Witbeck Digital Sanctum, inc. ----------------------------------------------------- skype: digitalsanctum blog: http://www.digitalsanctum.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]