> > no way ! well at least in our apps a major bank in the > > region. we have done extensive tests and we got 10% - 20% > > performance gain. > > Since you're dealing with banking information, I suspect much of your > traffic is via SSL. Turn on the APR connector in Tomcat with OpenSSL and > try the measurements again. The pure Java connector is definitely slower > than the httpd/APR one for doing encryption. >
we are using seperate hardware to do SSL (SSL offloaders) , we are moving the static content on any web app into apache so it won't need to go to tomcat to fitch that and here we get the gain. look Charles , I am really open to get rid of httpd (it is not my cousin anyway!) but i need to be convinced. Note also that commertial application servers (namely WSAD and Oracle ) do come with httpd infront of thier app server.
