Hello, We are finally ready to bring my web services into production, and I have some concerns about what type of system to use it on. I am hoping that some people here will be able to give me an idea about performance issues. I have been developing on an Ultra10 with 128M RAM, so have done little than just basic testing. If I want to handle bursty requests, up to about 1/sec, will Tomcat be able to handle this type of load, or it is better to tie Tomcat in with Apache, and have Apache handle the HTTP connections?
I am doing a lot of database queries and generating 2D and 3D graphs from the data. Any idea what type of system I would need? In terms of needed RAM? Is Tomcat threaded for each request? Thank you for taking the time to look at this. I am a bit nervous as to how well my web services will function under stress.
