Best practices for configuring Apache / Tomcat

Question

We are currently using Apache 2.2.3 and Tomcat 5 (Embedded in JBoss 4.2.2) using mod_proxy_jk as the connector.

Can someone shed some light on the the corre

Answer 1

The default settings are generally decent starting points to see what your applications is really going to need. I don't know how much traffic you're expecting, so guessing at the MaxThreads, MaxClients, and MaxServers is a bit difficult. I can tell you that most of the customers I deal with (work for a linux web host, that deals mainly with customers running Java apps in Tomcat) use the default settings for quite some time without too many tweaks needed.

If you're not expecting much traffic, then these settings being "too high" really shouldn't effect you too much either. Apache's not going to allocate resources for the whole 256 potential clients unless it becomes necessary. The same goes for Tomcat as well.