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Are there any websocket-specific tomcat 7 connector settings?

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As we start load testing our jsr-356 applications, I'd like to find out if there are any websocket-specific connector settings we should be aware of for tuning the underlying websocket connection processing. Since this is a tcp socket at the end of the day, I'm assuming all the socket.* options still apply if needed.

posted Oct 24, 2013 by Seema Siddique

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Nothing WebSocket specific. Threads that handle WebSocket requests come from the same pool that handles HTTP requests.

Note there are a few Tomcat specific WebSocket configuration knobs you can twiddle are documented here (note this is for svn head): http://ci.apache.org/projects/tomcat/tomcat7/docs/web-socket-howto.html#Tomcat_WebSocket_specific_configuration

answer Oct 24, 2013 by Anderson
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