Thanks to Glenn Nielsen, John Turner and Jon Wingfield for their input 
on this one - I've decided to stick with the 4.04 release for production 
right now, but I'll be looking to test 4.1.x for later use (in addition 
to upgrading my Apache version).

Regards,

sImon


 Glenn Nielsen wrote:

> Although there are those few gotchas when moving from 4.0.4 to 4.1,
> 4.1.x has much better performance and IMHO is more stable than 4.0.x.
> And if you use JSP there will be a huge improvement in performance for
> JSP pages.
>
> I have had Tomcat 4.1.x in production for 6 months with Jasper 1, and
> just recently upgraded it to Jasper 2.  This is on a site with > 500k
> page views per month.  This also uses Apache 1.3.26 and mod_jk 1.2.
>
> I agrree, upgrade to Apache 1.3.26.
>
> Regards,
>
> Glenn
>
> Turner, John wrote:
>
>> 4.0.4
>>
>> In addition, upgrade your Apache to 1.3.26.  There are numerous fixes 
>> and
>> some security fixes between .19 and .26.
>>
>> Don't move to 4.1.x until you have tested it thoroughly, there have 
>> already
>> been a few "gotchas" with 4.1.10.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Simon M Pascoe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 7:52 AM
>>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Subject: Which Tomcat version for production environment ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> hopefully a simple question, first some background. I'm about to 
>>> install Tomcat with mod_jk and Apache 1.3.19 on a server running 
>>> RedHat Advanced Server 2.1 for production use. I have already setup 
>>> a very similar test box running Tomcat 4.0.4. Though it hasn't been 
>>> under much of a load it has been stable for a few months now.
>>>
>>> My main criteria is that I need 4.x. and I really want to make sure 
>>> that I'm running the most stable (as opposed to latest and greatest) 
>>> version of Tomcat on my new server. Anyone out there with reasonable 
>>> experience in a production environment who could make a 
>>> recommendation please ?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any help,
>>>
>>> sImon Pascoe
>>>
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