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Performance and Monitoring

Preface

This is about Tomcat performance.

Other (non-exhaustive) notes:
  • Stress test your webapp. You can do this via JMeter, siege, flood, and other tools. Google is your friend.
  • Tweak your UNIX box! Look at ulimit and kernel parameters.
  • Bad design will hurt performance.
  • Look at JProbe, or OptimizeIt, or other profiling tools. Lots of people recommend these tools. This is not an endorsement for them, I just notice other people like them.

Questions
  • Is Tomcat faster than serving static HTML pages than apache?
  • Answers
    Is Tomcat faster than serving static HTML pages than apache?
    Yes depending on how you tune it. And NO depending on how you tune it. Anything less starts a religious war. We recommend performing your own benchmarks and see for yourself.


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