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Tomcat SSL Performance Followup

Previously I talked about improving the SSL performance in Tomcat simply by upgrading the JVM. Here we have a somewhat not-to-scale chart showing how we did in a “real world” test. Last night at 6pm an application opened up and sent a flood of users to our authentication service (CAS). Last year we could not handle the flood. CAS stalled, which caused a flood of calls to the help desk. In the business, we call that less than optimal.

We’re rolling CAS on Java 6 now and SSL performance is no longer an issue.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 at 1:15 pm and is filed under Web Development. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

One Response to “Tomcat SSL Performance Followup”

  1. Scott Kodai Says:
    April 2nd, 2008 at 1:53 pm

    Since we’re hoping to rely on CAS for our self-service application, I’m glad to see it’s doing well. :-)

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