Accelerate Your JBoss Enterprise Middleware - Red Hat Summit

Accelerate Your JBoss Enterprise Middleware –Web Container – JBoss WebHTTPHTTPJavaJavaHTTPHTTPAPRAPRAJPAJPWebWebContainerContainer● What's a low number of connections vs. a high number ofconnections?● In our testing, on a two socket Nehalem based server (8cores with hyper-threading), with 24 GB of RAM, the numberof connections that perform well for the Java blocking I/Oconnector is approximately 2,000 users.● After 2,000 users you start to see large degradation inresponse times, and it completely falls off a cliff at 5,000users.● On the same test server, using the APR connector (nativecode and non-blocking I/O), there is no appreciabledegradation 3,500 users, and scales nicely through 5,000users.● This is under the use case where you have high numbersof users, but low concurrency. The test used client thinktimes randomly, but evenly distributed between 1 and 4seconds.