On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 07:55 -0600, singh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Any Suggestions please? > > > We have a single servlet application very light weight. > > > > It is just like that servlet is called with some parameter and it returns > > some file from "n" number of files on local file system. > > > > It is an old application and some how it is having apache in front of > > tomcat. > > > > What i am thinking is what is more expensive : > > > > 1. Request coming to worker MPM in apache > Request sent using AJP to > > tomcat > > > tomcat creates a new thread > serves back the request. ( if it is right ) > > > > 2. Request directly coming to tomcat > new thread spawned > request > > served. > > > > Please not there is NO static content to be served. > > > > Is apache prefork or work MPM better in worker mgmt then tomcat ? > > > > Please suggest. > > > > Thanks > > Singh > > Are you asking which uses more resources, tomcat, or tomcat + a proxy? IMHO, If you have no need for apache in front of tomcat, then don't run it. Cheers Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx