-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Alec,
On 9/20/13 2:03 PM, Tomcat Random wrote: > Chris, Thanks for correcting the misdirected reply. > > "Do you mean it's not working under load, or you haven't yet tried > it under load?" > > I mean I haven't tested it under load yet. > > One of the main reasons for choosing APR is is that I was under > the impression it's good at serving large static files. My site has > some large swf files - one is ~8mb (it's a game site). > > The docs on APR say, "When APR is enabled, the HTTP connector will > use sendfile for handling large static files (all such files will > be sent asynchronously using high performance kernel level calls), > and will use a socket poller for keepalive, increasing scalability > of the server." The NIO connector also supports sendfile, and avoids blocking I/O for keepalives. > Your recommendation is NIO is comparable to APR in non-ssl > performance (as above for large static files) and more stable, and > it would be better to switch to that? I'm suggesting that NIO might be a comparable choice to APR with the added benefit of removing some complexity (that of installing a native library) to your deployment. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJSPRk7AAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYv5oP/1JZhzlnNfhPI7LLPJKegf5T Nk1Hd5DDPLoa58ihhnntQ0le0dOK6x+6LcktoIr1qvP9q2IiBupwF2HRnW4okW9O Db3p4vr0/9IioRPCkHpEcG6J+JR0L93SEDucqFpLQCAaR6x9Yc/ziGqO241sPhJD 5BmEBPBi+Kl+OD+UNhrMpyzNKf/zdmzjJu7oMl97DS6kNmx6gf2rvEwBS2Iec6xV NgfzqQ/6faSIsFv5AseHIXmYkZcifyegUYemQt+ZtNs7z9C0rx7Gd1Hh6ls2mjlG WD4Y2yILg8WouDZXJXEhGU5Pq65iVCoYPTWTF4tvJS0aU4AYVx5opiSZNeZy6vGl UAsX7lpTDgQ/VXfEOHmslvZsHorkOnh6z9CcVDtjcZYf+mFouGy3CXJROTcUizJg pzwghiT4jX9xcUWaf13CjuqBMo5SwsSqkkf4HY2vFDBDfn70bIG8k+FdjjTjKjv1 hZwkGc4Ysc0h0b2vKCYgI78fwydDvdnoNEJ50IONP6coxo4fSdaFCaFCQ/gXKVLG puMVkbE5WAkgxFBcM0zms5U9oqAQ2ZnwlGMB6tM1/GvnIQYgAiqqDVgEwm/wbWct XYxPIHakMXtJZRPY5lECQzmbHMZX4HnJ/si53lKQ2JeT79JC+Pesox0fNobU2eD1 K5Wu5Y96NL5F+Frl3wOE =9/4N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org