I have a problem with a non-CF-related out-of-control service on one of my servers. I purchased a product called ProcessLasso (cost about $150 IIRC). It allows you to assign thresholds for CPU utilization that will automatically kill "rogue" processes or restart them. Might be worth considering.
HTH, Carl On 9/23/2011 4:40 PM, Richard Steele wrote: > Ok for all of those following this thread, we resolved our hanging instance > problem! > > It was an Efflare imageCR3 service (an image tag alternative to cfimage), > that was getting hung. As a result, it caused any pages that called the tag > to hang. Restarting that service solved the problem. > > Why it hangs, I have no idea, but we are now restarting that service every 4 > hours (it takes 5 secs). We will retire that tag at some point, but for now > hopefully the restart will keep it fresh and prevent the hangups. > > That makes total sense as to why we had to reboot the server to prevent the > instances from hanging (restarting the two instances didn't help, nor > restarting IIS). Made sense that all other domain instances were working well > as they don't relay on the tag. Had we known that the Efflare tag was the > culprit, we could have prevented all those server reboots. Thanks for > everyone's help. I learned a lot! > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347670 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm