On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Wes Wannemacher<w...@wantii.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Musachy Barroso<musa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Struts adds overhead for serving static content. Not that I have ever >> done any benchmarking on it, but I know that at my company(large >> online retailer), just suggesting to serve static content thru tomcat >> instead of apache is a big offense. >> >> musachy >> > > I had a similar experience at a large online content provider. At the > time, we were bouncing back and forth between tomcat and resin. We > used mod_jk and mod_caucho for integration between httpd and the app > servers. I hate it when rules exist, but there is no data to backup > the rule's existence. >
To follow that up, check out Chapter 4 of Tomcat: The Definitive Guide, the author goes into detail load testing Tomcat and HTTPD - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101060/chapter/index.html The author does a good job of covering the tools, which I think is important since everyone should test for themselves. -Wes -- Wes Wannemacher Author - Struts 2 In Practice Includes coverage of Struts 2.1, Spring, JPA, JQuery, Sitemesh and more http://www.manning.com/wannemacher --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
