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Tomcat Efficiency

 
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Hi all,

I am using Tomcat 5.0 for serving requests by mobile devices. Since there are no static Web/WML pages so I did not feel the need of Apache.

I am expecting around plus ten thousand hits per second. Do you think tomcat will be able to handle this load? If not can you recommend some other servlet container.

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864 millions of hits per day - that's an impressive number; more than some very high-profile web sites get in a month. I doubt that Tomcat (or any other server) can single-handedly handle this amount of traffic. I think the question is not so much: can Tomcat handle it, but: how many servers running Tomcat will you need to service this many requests? Depending on how big the average response is you might also run into some network bandwidth issues.
 
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