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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:37:03 -0600
From: Filip Hanik - Dev Lists <devlists@hanik.com>
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Threads in hundreds, or lower one thousand is ok, if you need more, 
question yourself :)
ie, if you need more concurrency, simply turn of keep alives.

Having too many threads will do the following

1. Eat up a good chunk of memory
2. Your system will spend too much time context switching

Filip

Mike Crawford wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to know if there are any gotchas from increasing maxThreads well
> beyond the standard 150.  For instance, on a new Dell 1950 dual-core with
> 4GB RAM, why not try 300 or even thousands of threads?  I will be putting
> Lighty or Apache in front of Tomcat, which is also a potential bottleneck.
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Mike Crawford
>
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