RE: Tomcat scalability

2002-11-03 Thread Sexton, George
You would be better off to use a load balancer in front of a cluster of Tomcat servers. It gives you very good scalability, with good fault tolerance. -Original Message- From: ryan [mailto:rsburgess;shaw.ca] Sent: 03 November, 2002 12:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tomcat

Re: Tomcat scalability

2002-11-03 Thread Robert_McDermid
That's a tough question to answer, and pretty much the only way you're going to be able to tell is to try it. Here's a few suggestions of things to think about: The first question you might want to ask is can your database handle 1600 transactions per second? If not (and even if it can) you

Re: Tomcat scalability

2002-11-03 Thread Ryan Hoegg
One good rule of thumb is not to solve problems that don't exist. Your first task is to set up a server and hit it with something a good 20%-50% more demanding than your expected load. There exist several automated tools to do this. One is JMeter at

Re: Tomcat scalability

2002-11-03 Thread Bojan Smojver
Quoting Jon Scott Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: on 2002/11/3 2:24 PM, Bojan Smojver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know you have a much better machine, but 1600 transactions does seem a bit high. Not for porn. Nah... they wouldn't use Java for that. They'd use Porn Hypertext Processor (PHP)