On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 11:57 AM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I know with other frameworks (like python/rails) people tend to run > multiple instaces of the web server and round robin requests to each using > something like haproxy. > > Is this known in the tomcat community at all? > > If I have a server with 16GB ram, would it make sense to run a few tomcat > processes on different ports and use haproxy to round robin requests to > each tomcat instance? > > I realize python/ruby do this because of their poor threading support. > > thanks! > Take a look at: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/cluster-howto.html Tomcat has extensive clustering support. Best, Matt Tyson
