Re: UserConfig: alternative implementation

2009-11-04 Thread Mikhail Kryshen
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:46:07 -0800 Costin Manolache wrote: > I was asking about tomcat startup time - loading all the 780 contexts, > versus a normal > startup with 2-3 contexts. BTW - it would be nice to include this kind of > info in the docs. Tried the following test setup: 1000 users, 1 appli

Re: UserConfig: alternative implementation

2009-11-04 Thread Costin Manolache
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Mikhail Kryshen wrote: > On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:34:57 -0800 > Costin Manolache wrote: > > > Curious: how does it scale for large number of users, in particular if > you > > have NFS homes ? > > I use it at a university server with 780 user accounts with home > dire

Re: UserConfig: alternative implementation

2009-11-04 Thread Mikhail Kryshen
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:34:57 -0800 Costin Manolache wrote: > Curious: how does it scale for large number of users, in particular if you > have NFS homes ? I use it at a university server with 780 user accounts with home directories mounted via NFS from distinct file server, user database is LDAP.

Re: UserConfig: alternative implementation

2009-11-03 Thread Costin Manolache
Curious: how does it scale for large number of users, in particular if you have NFS homes ? It would be interesting to change this to not init the contexts when tomcat starts - just register a handler that would start the context on first request. Or as a Valve that looks for ~foo and then lookups

UserConfig: alternative implementation

2009-11-03 Thread Mikhail Kryshen
Hi, I have implemented host event listener similar to org.apache.catalina.startup.UserConfig but with support for multiple webapps per user, automatic deployment and remote user databases on UNIX. Currently it is available as a separate package that could be added to tomcat6 classpath and referen