Performance tuning for Tomcat 7
Performance tuning plays a vital role to run a web application without downtime. Also, it helps in improving the performance of Tomcat while running the applications. Tuning of the Tomcat server may vary from application to application. Since every application has its own requirements, it is a very tricky task to tune Tomcat 7 for every application. In this topic, we will discuss tuning of various components of Tomcat, and how they are useful in the server performance. Before we start with the configuration changes, let us quickly discuss why we need to tune Tomcat.
Why we need performance tuning?
People always ask, why do we need to do performance tuning for Tomcat 7 when, by default, Tomcat 7 packages are customized for the production run.
The answer to this question is very subjective; every web application has its own requirement. Some of the applications require high memory while others require less memory but a high GC pause. It varies from application...
