Blogging Roller

Today was cool and clear fall day here in North Carolina. No sign of the approaching storm. I live in Raleigh which is a couple of hundred miles from the shore, but the storm could track close enough to us give us a dose of 60 mile-per-hour winds, power outages, and downed trees. I'm hoping that the two giant oak trees in our yard will survive and will not land on our house. My hurricane preparations? I stowed all of our lawn furniture, bought extra charcoal for the grill, and bumped up the maxProcessors thread-count on FreeRoller from 75 to 200 threads.

I walked out to my mailbox today to find that FreeRoller has vaulted everybody's favorite blowhard, the Howard Stern of Java blogs, bile-blogger Hani Suleiman to worldwide fame in the pages of Java Developers Journal. Hani's editorial, is just another in a series of unnecessary open-source-ain't-all-it's-cracked-up-to-be pieces from JDJ. The motivation for this most recent open source backlash? I guess JDJ feels the need to please it's advertisers and Hani feels the need to poke a little stick in the eyes of the JBoss group and Andy Oliver.

I've been googling around for some guidelines for setting the number of request-processing threads on a Tomcat site. So far, I've found nothing. FreeRoller had been set for 75 threads, but it seems to run out at that level. Does this by itself indicate a problem or is 75 threads too low for a relatively high volume blog site like FreeRoller?