Henri Gomez wrote:
I made some benchs on my Linux Fedora Core 2 on a P4 2.8ghz / 1Gb RAM :
Apache 2 alone 1202 req/s TC/Coyote 883 req/s
One thing I noticed when looking at Tomcat 5.0.x is that its default, static-file-delivering servlet does a stat(2) of each path prefix leading up to the file. A standard installation of Apache 2.x, with FollowSymlinks enabled, doesn't do these stat calls, for obvious performance reasons.
Is the stat'ing of all the directories leading up to the requested file in Tomcat intentional (it *is* valuable in some environments for security purposes), or is it just a side-effect of the implementation?
Brian
