correction gain ! WAS not WSAD.
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Youssef Mohammed < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > no way ! well at least in our apps a major bank in the >> > region. we have done extensive tests and we got 10% - 20% >> > performance gain. >> >> Since you're dealing with banking information, I suspect much of your >> traffic is via SSL. Turn on the APR connector in Tomcat with OpenSSL and >> try the measurements again. The pure Java connector is definitely slower >> than the httpd/APR one for doing encryption. >> > > we are using seperate hardware to do SSL (SSL offloaders) , we are moving > the static content on any web app into apache so it won't need to go to > tomcat to fitch that and here we get the gain. > > look Charles , I am really open to get rid of httpd (it is not my cousin > anyway!) but i need to be convinced. > > Note also that commertial application servers (namely WSAD and Oracle ) do > come with httpd infront of thier app server. > > > > -- Regards, Youssef
