Tsirkin Evgeny wrote: > Hi list! > Does anybody have an experience running cgi programs under tomcat? Yes.
> We have a very high load ahead of us and one of my co workers suggestied to > run the > cgi program using a tomcat in place of apache . Really? That wouldn't be my first choice (or my second or third for that matter). > What we have one spare server that we can connect behind our main server > using one of the two options: > 1. setup mod_proxy to pass the cgi request to this backend machine and on > that machine use apache server. > 2. put tomcat on the backend ,make it run cgi and connect it using mod_jk > Note that we can't use load balancer here to put the new machine _together_ > with the production one , > because we have no time to have a full install of _all_ the applications > there & we need another ssl cert for it. > We just want, at the mean time ,put it at the back and redirect some the > traffic there. > So ,which is better for cgi : tomcat or apache? httpd - by a mile - by even more when correctly configured. > The one who suggested tomcat have in mind the fact that tomcat is > multithread and we will have less memory footprint with it,hopefully? So is httpd. I assume you have load test data that shows that the CGI represents a sufficiently large proportion of your server load to justify off-loading it to a separate box. If that is the case... If you want to have a server dedicated to cgi I'd suggest something like fastcgi. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
