-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dave,
On 10/14/2010 12:58 PM, laredotornado wrote: > I haven't done any benchmarks, and I'm assuming some of the folks on this > thread are the Tomcat developers and can speak first hand to the speed. While I am not a Tomcat developer, I can speak to the performance of Tomcat with regard to static files: if you use the APR or NIO connectors with sendFile="true", your performance will be on par with Apache httpd. The blocking (default) connector has pretty horrible performance, comparably. That being said, I have tested a variety of static file sizes, and if you have files that are less than about 64KiB in size, it doesn't matter what connector you use. *I'll repeat that for emphasis: all connectors perform the same with static files up to about 64KiB in size.* My tests were done against Tomcat 6.0.20 and Apache httpd 2.2.11. > If so, I would encourage you to update the wiki... > > http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Connectors > > because it mentions that Apache is faster at serving static content than > Tomcat for high-traffic sites. It says that "historically, Apache httpd has been faster". Unfortunately, it does not say that this is no longer true. There's also another piece of this puzzle: the use of Apache httpd makes all your dynamic requests that must be proxied to Tomcat slower. So, the question is this: do you get more static of dynamic requests? If you get more static requests than dynamic requests, maybe running Apache httpd out front might make sense. If you have only a few static requests and mostly dynamic ones, you may be optimizing 1% of your traffic and de-optimizing 99% of it. There is also another option: use an image server. Don't put your static files on the same server as your (dynamic) webapp. Then, have that other server serve those files hopefully faster. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAky3UrgACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PC5sQCfbd9VQh10Fj93LwcTB1x4wAmg dBkAoMQGaQUFPyntawbVDaFSt4YTThCK =CQ2+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
