Thanks for the suggestions. I agree lots of stuff can only be decided after
putting into a specific environment. But still, any number that can be
shared?
How many concurrent users your Tomcat can serve?
Thanks again!
Li
On 12/24/06, Gary Evesson <lists@(protected):
>
> Generally in a production environment, increasing the number of threads
> from
> the default is compulsory. You need to balance that against the amount of
> memory that you have allocated for your JVM, which needs to be balanced
> against the amount of memory available in the machine.
>
> Handling concurrent users generally comes back to the number of
> connections
> that your architecture can handle and how much work your database
> server(s)
> (assuming you have some) can handle. Our experience has been that these
> things become an issue before tomcat does. It depends on your application
> *a
> lot*.
>
> Nothing beats real load testing to figure out where *your* stress points
> are. They are probably going to be different to other people...
>
> Gary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Li Ma [mailto:lima01@(protected)]
> Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 12:35 PM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Re: Peak load of Tomcat-powered server(s)?
>
> Actually you can imagine the server serves a site like mySpace where
> people
> can access their own home, blog, images, forum, etc. I know it is still
> not
> easy to answer, but I'm not looking for an answer to my specific question.
> I'm just looking for any similiar experience that can be shared and hoping
> I
> can learn some.
>
> Another question, how many threads do you think Tomcat can have on one
> machine? And will increasing number of threads help processing more
> requests? I think 100-150 per server per second is not a good number. But
> if
> it is true, does that mean Tomcat is not suitable for large website? And
> what does commercial products like WebLogic can normally do?
>
> Well, lots of question at my end. Thanks for sharing of your idea. Any
> thing
> will help.
>
> Best!
>
> Li
>
> On 12/24/06, Leon Rosenberg <rosenberg.leon@(protected):
> >
> > The question is impossible to answer, since you don't tell us what a
> > user will do :-)
> > However, to give you an example, if your requests are somewhat
> > "normal-web-requests" (producing html) than going for 100-150 per
> > second and server should be a reasonable value.
> >
> > regards
> > Leon
> >
> > P.S. Of course it depends hardly on your use-cases... for example your
> > apache in front of tomcat could reduce the performance by 10% without
> > giving you anything in exchange.
> >
> > On 12/24/06, Li Ma <lima01@(protected):
> > > I need to setup for a client to run a myspace-like site. My client
> kept
> > > asking me how many concurrent user's I can support. I really don't
> know
> > the
> > > answer.
> > >
> > > We will use Apache, jk_mod, Tomcat and Oracle(clustered). We will use
> > X86
> > > servers with Linux.
> > >
> > > Can anyone share your experience and let me know the best load you
> have
> > > achieved?
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot and Merry Christmas!
> > >
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> > > lima01@(protected)
> > > http://www.idealtechs.com
> > >
> > >
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