Caldarale, Charles R schrieb: > I suspect the previous posts on this subject are slightly confused. > AFAIK, APR doesn't know or care about the type of content - it's simply > a more efficient mechanism for keeping multiple connections open > simultaneously without tying up a thread for each. It also reduces the > CPU time used to deliver both static and dynamic content, but I haven't > seen any numbers yet to compare it with the current pure Java NIO > connector.
AFAICT the main advantage of APR wrt static content is the possibility to use sendfile. In my experience usage of sendfile increases throughput significantly - at least with big files and provided that the speed of the network connection, disk IO etc. is not a limiting factor. The one drawback I see wrt sendfile is that the size of the content transmitted via sendfile won't add to the internal counters, i. e. the size of the file transferred will show up neither in the access log (if enabled) nor in the "Bytes sent" information the manager app displays on the Server Status page. Of course, depending on one's needs this may be an issue or not. Regards mks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
