2010/1/7 Alexander Skwar <alexanders.mailinglists+nos...@gmail.com>: > Right now, we're using Bea WebLogic as our application server. We'd like to > change to Tomcat 6. Now the creator of the application being run on the > App Server said, that Tomcat works very well under low usage / low load > situations. But if there are "many" (unsure about the definition of > "many"...) > users, Tomcat might tend to not perform so well anymore. > > I suppose "many" might mean like 50-100+ concurrent users using the App > or system at the same time. > > Now I'm wondering, if that's actually true - does Tomcat not perform well > anymore, if there are many users using it? Does anyone of you maybe have > real world examples of high profile / high load sites using Tomcat (6)?
University of Leeds routinely had 100+ active users on its Bodington VLE, and I'm aware of Sakai sites that load-balance across 4-8 Tomcat application servers that can serve around 5,000 concurrent users. A correctly configured Tomcat has no problem at high loads. It's barely possible your application creator might be talking in code for the following: "Something in WebLogic means that our application runs fine, whereas something in Tomcat tickles a bug in our application that means it doesn't scale." This isn't unusual - unless an application is tested under many containers, it's very common for a platform dependence to creep in. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
