Thanks Christopher for the reply, I am using Apache Web server for the front end to serve my html requests. I have thought about using JBoss with it's Tomcat as the front end Apache as the back end for handling ordinary http requests but have not found anyone who has done that. This is so I use the standard port 80 for requests over the internet.
I think I narrowed down most of the time to calls by web start on the client side for permissions check for every request. I left a forum message on java.net about it and hope to get an answer. Web start does do keep-alive requests I believe so maybe that is something to consider. My goal is to see if I can get response times over the lan under 1msec using standard cheap hardware and open source software. I am close to my 1msec goal (measured at the client) and know if I upgrade my old AMD64 5200+ I use for my server to say a Phenom II quad say a 955 I might be able to pull it off. So right now by tier. Client PC: 4-5msec measured after message received from JAX-WS proxy in code. Apache: logs 0 microsecond (running on windows so suspect 15msec accuracy from timers even though microsecond resolution expected in Apache logs) Tomcat: 20 microseconds response time measured at web service method called by client. I am using cache at this tier. For those results client/Apache/Tomcat(Jboss) are on same physical PC. If I try from another client on lan I get the same response time at the client. Thus routers/switches (1Gbps) are not noticable from response time perspective right now. I hope this helps answer your question. Best Regards, -Tony --- On Wed, 10/7/09, Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > From: Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net> > Subject: Re: Tomcat Repsonse question... > To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org> > Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 3:14 PM > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tony, > > On 10/6/2009 1:32 PM, Tony Anecito wrote: > > I am running JBoss and Apache on the same box so not > sure if the > > TCP/IP stack is bypassed in that case. > > It's not bypassed, but it skips a lot of steps and does > sneaky things > like sharing send and receive buffers to dramatically > reduce the > overhead when communicating with localhost (at least, > decent *NIX TCP/IP > stacks do this... not sure about any others). > > > What I am trying to do is find out where my > bottlenecks are. > > Tomcat itself is unlikely to be a bottleneck, except where > Connectors > are concerned. There are several reasons why the > connector/threads could > be a problem for you: > > 1. Your webapp is not responding quickly enough, resulting > in a pileup > of requests. This is obviously not really Tomcat's fault. > > 2. You have lots of keepalive requests, and the client > takes a long time > to send secondary requests. In this case, consider using > the NIO > connector which doesn't allocate a request processing > thread until a > request has actually been made. > > 3. You don't have enough request processing threads > configured, and you > are simply experiencing more traffic than you expected. In > this case, > your webapp is performing as expected (i.e. well) but you > aren't getting > the throughput you expect because you are simply limited by > your > available thread count. > > If you could explain what you are observing, we might be > able to steer > you toward a particular course of action. > > > In my code I instrument the response time for my web > service and I > > am below 1msec and if visualvm is right more like > 20microseconds > > response time for the method exposed for my web > service. > > That sounds reasonable, especially if you aren't hitting a > database or > you already have some data cached. > > > At my Thick client over the lan I am seeing 3-5msec > response time > > using JBoss 4.2.2. > > So, instrumenting the client gives you 3-5msec for an > observed overhead > of 2-4msec? Are you using SSL or anything like that? Still > localhost? > > > So trying to go from tier to tier to see how fast the > tiers are and > > if there is anything else I can tune. I just updated > to JBoss 5.1.0 > > and am seeing 1msec slower or 4-5msec but have not > tuned it yet > > except for jvm settings. > > Hmm... > > > I am using ajp for the connector. I plan to upgrade my > Apache web > > server soon to the latest version hoping for > performance improvement > > for the ajp connector. > > If performance is what you're after, ditch httpd and go > straight to > Tomcat. Do you have a requirement to use httpd our front? > > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkrNBKgACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PDfgwCgvgKOLHRAl5+JpS7+aqsFytJN > C+gAnRRnxwliEkVBzYy73l7gpvT3+V0z > =axGy > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
