Hi Chuck, Thx for the detailed info. i'll keep a note of these details during deployment.
Thank you, bala. On 6/11/09, Caldarale, Charles R <chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> wrote: >> From: balachandra maddina [mailto:chandu2...@gmail.com] >> Subject: Using tomcat as standalone >> >> Im wondering what are the performance implications of using tomcat as >> standalone? many suggested to use the tomcat along with IIS. but im not >> sure why is this required? > > Front-ending Tomcat with IIS would create a lot of extra overhead and > administrative workload - don't do it unless you're already using IIS as > your primary web server for the domain of interest. > > Tomcat does very well at serving static content by itself these days (better > than IIS). If you're using SSL and have stringent performance requirements, > consider installing the APR native library with Tomcat; this uses OpenSSL > rather than the Java libraries and is noticeably faster. APR may get you a > performance improvement for non-encrypted requests as well, but you'd have > to measure your webapps with it to be sure. > > Use the latest Tomcat (6.0.20) and JVM (6u14) in server mode for the best > performance starting point; use a 64-bit version of the JVM if you need the > heap space and your platform supports it. > > - Chuck > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received > this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its > attachments from all computers. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
