Iam working on solaris 2.6, Tomcat 3.2.1 and Apache 1.3.9 with mod_jk I have 5 servlets running and they are load balanced by a load balancing servlet. All the servlets are identical and run on the same machine and use the same class files. Each of my requests takes 10 seconds to process. If i sent 5 concurrent request at the same time. Servlet 1 would process request 1 and wait 10 seconds and then the next request would get processed and so on, it takes a total of 50 seconds to complete the operation.( The whole operation seemed serial and not concurrent as i expected it to be) I was expecting the 5 requests to be processed concurrently by the 5 servlets in 10 seconds. Does the Load-Balancer block ???? What am i doing wrong or is this how it is supposed to work, my backend is a Oracle database and all the operations are selects. Please help