On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 10:11 -0700, Tom wrote: > At work we're trying to migrate from running our J2EE application on > Windows to running on Linux (RHE4). Our application runs on Tomcat with > Apache (SSL) in front of it serving up images and stylesheets. We first > tested performance with just Tomcat running on both platforms and > unsurprisingly the Linux app ran faster in almost every situation. > However when we added Apache to the mix suddenly the Windows app > outperformed the Linux app handily. I was very surprised to see this but > I'm not sure what else to check. Does anyone have any ideas of where we > could look to see if we have a misconfiguration? Or maybe Apache just > runs faster on Windows?
If all you are using apache for is for SSL and static content, you might try another web server that's more lightweight. I don't know what the options are, but I do know there are some real speed demons out there that can, for static content, smoke apache. Sounds to me this might be what you need. Michael > > Thanks in advance, > Tom > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
