Tomcat 8 Performance Setting

Tomcat 8 comes with more performance features comparing to previous version, this version, Tomcat is using NIO2 according to Jboss’s blog. You might interesting to read Tomcat 8 overview at this slideshare by SpringIO.

The performance setting of tomcat is similar to other previous version of tomcat as I already stated in my previous post for general Tomcat performance and here.

Here, again, to list down the simple performance tuning for Tomcat 8 that you might need it.

Memory Settings

• catalina.sh / catalina.bat

Java 7

set JAVA_HOME=D:/Apps/Java/jdk1.7.0_40
set JAVA_OPTS=-Djava.awt.headless=true -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 
set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -server -Xms512m -Xmx1024m -XX:NewSize=128m -XX:MaxNewSize=256m -XX:PermSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:+DisableExplicitGC

Java 8

set JAVA_HOME=D:/Apps/Java/jdk1.8.0_25
set JAVA_OPTS=-Djava.awt.headless=true -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 
set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -server -Xms512m -Xmx1024m -XX:NewSize=128m -XX:MaxNewSize=256m -XX:MetaspaceSize=256m -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=256m -XX:+DisableExplicitGC

Tomcat Compression

<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
	   connectionTimeout="20000"
	   redirectPort="8443" 
	   maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
	   maxThreads="150"
	   minSpareThreads="25"
	   maxSpareThreads="75"
	   maxKeepAliveRequests="-1"
	   enableLookups="false"
	   acceptCount="100"
	   compression="on"
	   URIEncoding="UTF-8"
	   compressionMinSize="2048"
	   noCompressionUserAgents="gozilla, traviata"
	   compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/json,text/javascript,text/css,text/plain, application/javascript,application/xml,application/xml+xhtml"
	   />

If any other tunings, please share, I will update here as well.

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