Thanks Mark. On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 17/02/2011 14:56, Afkham Azeez wrote: > > Hi folks, > > What is the advantage of using this connector as opposed to the default > one? > > In which scenarios would we tend to use the default connector, and in > which > > scenarios will it be more appropriate to use the NIO connector? > > NIO and APR use one thread per currently processing request. > BIO uses one thread per connection. Since usually connections >> > currently processing request, NIO and APR scale better. > > BIO has slightly better raw performance than NIO (excluding sendfile). > > APR and NIO support sendfile. > > APR has much better SSL performance. > > NIO and APR support Comet, BIO does not. > > As with anything performance related, YMMV. The only way to be sure is > to test it. > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
