posted by SpringSource on April 16, 2010 06:20 AM

Determining the best configuration for concurrency is dependent upon the application running on Tomcat.

Because every application is so different, there are no general guidelines for how many instances you setup on different kinds of hardware, but there is a way to determine how your application will best run on your given hardware.

To determine what is the best config:

1. You need some sort of load test or measurement of performance
2. Start out with one instance, the reason for this is simplicity. Have this instance setup with maxThreads="400"
3. Run the load test

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