On 29/11/2010 16:23, sol myr wrote: > Hi, > > I've just started looking into the NIO Connector. > And I see why it's great to combine NIO+Comet... > But does it makes any difference outside of Comet?
Yes. > > 1) Namely, if I only have old-fashioned Servlets (not a "CometProcessor") - > will it improve performance to use NIO connector (versus the good old HTTP > connector)? That depends on how you define performance. > I ran a test with such old-fashioned Servlet, and got the impression that > Tomcat opens a thread-per-request. So it didn't take advantage of the "non > blocking" feature of NIO. Thread per request - yes (it has to due to how the servlet API is defined) but not a thread per connection. That is a big difference. > But then again, perhaps it takes advantage of other NIO features? Such as > native buffers, etc? Nope. > 2) Also, what about static resources (such as images), assuming they're > distributed by Tomcat (with no Apache server at the front)? > Will they be perform better with NIO connector? It depends. sendfile is available but that doe snot guarantee better static content performance. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
