On 3 March 2010 18:24, Bharath Vasudevan <bharath....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmmm... > > "No, the server will allocate maxThreads request handlers; the other > requests would sit in the TCP stack's queue (not in the JVM), up to the > configured acceptCount value - which you can set as high as your OS > allows." > > I was assuming that the tomcat main thread is going to pick it up from the > TCP stack and let the web server thread handle the request. Wont tomcat > reject the request when max threads have been reached (since it would have > already picked up tcp layer)? > > No, because the container doesn't know when a thread might become available. Serving content after a delay is considered better than not serving content at all, so the requests are simply queued in the TCP stack. - Peter
