can you post your config please? beside this, is there a reason you stick to AJP-connector? iirc this is not a default-module for nginx, and on my testing i found the HTTP-connector as fast as AJP, but working kind of smoother for tomcat-appservers regards, mex Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,252011,252013#msg-252013