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Tanuj Khare
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Tanuj Khare

Tanuj Khare has worked as a professional in IT for six+ years. He is involved in Process improvements using ITIL framework and techniques (LEAN and Six sigma). He is MCSA and ITIL certified and has expertise in handling critical production server issues and has a track record of dealing with many complex problems. His quick resolution to issues faced in a production environment helped his team and clients a lot. Tanuj has SME (subject matter expertise) in Tomcat, weblogic, and JBOSS Server Administration. His experience includes working with large enterprise web hosting environment for J2EE container and small teams and his quick turnaround time resulted in on-time delivery. Apart from this, his technical expertise in root cause analysis, problem management, migration of enterprise application, and upgrade of web application servers is commendable. Until now he has done around 100+ enterprise application migrations. He has also done J2EE web and application upgrades and managed environments with 1,000+ middleware instances. Outside of work life, Tanuj enjoys playing table tennis and exploring new technologies. Tanuj is a good dancer. This is his first book.
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OS tuning


Every OS has its own prerequisites to run Tomcat 7 and the system has to be tuned based on the application's requirement, but there are some similarities between each OS. Let's discuss the common module used for optimization of Tomcat 7 for every OS. The OS plays a vital role for increasing the performance. Depending on the hardware, the application's performance will increase or decrease. Some of the points which are very much useful for the application are:

  • Performance characteristics of the 64 bit versus 32 bit VM: The benefits of using 64 bit VMs are being able to address larger amounts of memory, which comes with a small performance loss in 64 bit VMs versus running the same application on a 32 bit VM. You can allocate more than 4 GB JVM for a memory-intensive application.

Note

In case you are using a 64 bit JVM edition, then you have to add 30 percent more memory as compared to a 32 bit JVM edition.

  • Files size: Based on the application requirement, the file size is set in...

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Tanuj Khare

Tanuj Khare has worked as a professional in IT for six+ years. He is involved in Process improvements using ITIL framework and techniques (LEAN and Six sigma). He is MCSA and ITIL certified and has expertise in handling critical production server issues and has a track record of dealing with many complex problems. His quick resolution to issues faced in a production environment helped his team and clients a lot. Tanuj has SME (subject matter expertise) in Tomcat, weblogic, and JBOSS Server Administration. His experience includes working with large enterprise web hosting environment for J2EE container and small teams and his quick turnaround time resulted in on-time delivery. Apart from this, his technical expertise in root cause analysis, problem management, migration of enterprise application, and upgrade of web application servers is commendable. Until now he has done around 100+ enterprise application migrations. He has also done J2EE web and application upgrades and managed environments with 1,000+ middleware instances. Outside of work life, Tanuj enjoys playing table tennis and exploring new technologies. Tanuj is a good dancer. This is his first book.
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