-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bill,
On 10/6/2011 7:20 PM, Bill Wang wrote: > Recently one of Tomcat application has performance issue, which get > slow respond with high sessions. Can you give us some numbers? At what point do things slow down, and by how much do they slow down? > One team member recommend me to adjust the session timeout from 60 > minutes to 30 minutes. I will do that, but before change it, I'd > like to understand how the performance related with the expire > session timeout. > > <session-timeout>60</session-timeout> I'm not sure performance will change at all when changing the session timeout. Tomcat runs session-expiration tasks periodically, and the performance of that has more to do with the number of total sessions than the timeout itself. If you have lots of sessions that must timeout instead of being explicitly invalidated (i.e. people close their browsers instead of logging-out), then you will have a lot of wasted memory that may prevent the garbage collector from working efficiently. It's best to destroy sessions as soon as they are not needed, so short session timeouts can help with that. On the other hand, you want to give users a reasonable amount of time to get a cup of coffee, etc. without forcing them to re-login every time. You'll have to determine what is an appropriate amount of time for your users. There is another option: selectively extend the session timeout for certain sessions, or for certain operations. If a user enters a flow that is expected to take a long time or the consequences of having the session time out are frustrating (i.e. you have to re-enter tons of data), you can change the session timeout for that one session to be longer than the default. When the flow is over, you can re-set it back to the default. We do that for a number of tasks in our webapp, for instance. > Second, currently I monitor the session count by login the admin > interface, Do you mean using the "manager" app? > the manual way is not efficiency, can I run some commands to get > the sessions number? With that I can set a cronjob and generate the > session report easily. If you have the manager app deployed, you can use the text or XML interfaces from the command-line instead of the HTML interface. Simple use of wget, curl, etc. should allow you to do this kind of thing. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6PC2gACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PBo3gCgvV7dAylXSz1vz3jRX2jmr1lE E9kAoMKnHUgOC5MEx31lz121tXT1aV8J =CGz3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
