A good tool for load testing is JMeter http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/index.html
Here's a link to some testing we did with it for our product: http://www.mhsoftware.com/caldemo/manual/en/pageFinder.html?page=622.htm Basically, we go something like 1400 requests per minute on a uni-processor P4. George Sexton MH Software, Inc. http://www.mhsoftware.com/ Voice: 303 438 9585 > -----Original Message----- > From: Zaki, Karim R UTCHQ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 11:02 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: Running Tomcat 5.0.28 in server mode > > Well, I don't know how to measure the number of requests per > second. If you > can provide help with that, that would be great. What I'm > doing is testing > with a template provided by Vignette (I don't know if I can > send attachments > on this list). It takes 2 seconds to load! This really > doesn't do any real > work...so when the code starts to do something useful, we go > into over a > minute of load time per page. > > -----Original Message----- > From: George Sexton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 12:15 PM > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > Subject: RE: Running Tomcat 5.0.28 in server mode > > What does really slow mean? That's a subjective assessment, not a > quantititative value. How many requests per second? > > George Sexton > MH Software, Inc. > http://www.mhsoftware.com/ > Voice: 303 438 9585 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Zaki, Karim R UTCHQ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 8:46 AM > > To: Tomcat User Group > > Subject: Running Tomcat 5.0.28 in server mode > > > > Dear all, > > > > I'm running Tomcat 5.0.28 in conjunction with Vignette. JSPs use the > > Vignette APIs (provided as JARs). Everything works, but > performance is > > really slow. The server that's hosting this is a quad > > processor (@2GHz each) > > Windows 2000 Server with 2GB of memory and a gigabit NIC...so > > I don't see > > hardware as being an issue. > > > > One thing I'm trying to do is run Tomcat in server mode. My > > understanding is > > that this should enhance performance. However, adding > > "-server" to Tomcat's > > "Java Options" box causes Tomcat to not start. What am I > doing wrong? > > > > Also, if anyone can provide performance tuning > > recommendations, please do. > > > > Thanks all.. > > > > Karim > > > > -------------------------------------------- > > "I didn't do it!" ~ Bart Simpson > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]