Sure Sean- I'd be happy to tell you more: We have a brand new machine, and this is our server configuration: Compaq ML 370 Windows 2000 Server SP3 (IIS 5.0) 4 GB RAM 2x72 GB Hard Drive (RAID 1) Dual 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 Xeon Processors CFMX Professional, default JRE
Databases we connect to are: Oracle 8i (8.1.7) on two separate Windows NT servers (connected to using Oracle's JDBC/OCI 8.1.7.4 drivers) Local Microsoft Access databases (using standard Access drivers from coldfusion) Also, we are trying to connect to network Access databases, but we've thusfar been unable to connect to them (I have another e-mail to this mailing list trying to fix this problem). We're getting errors of permission denied/exclusively opened by another user, despite the fact that our CF MX server is running as a valid domain user account that has full access to the directories the database is in, and that there is nobody in those databases (we tried making copies of them that nobody was in for certain- same error). Also, our Seagate page server, running under the same user account, has no problem connecting to these network db's. But, I digress... The server is also running OrgTraks 3.1 (with a separate Resin web server on port 8080), and Seagate Page Server/Web Component Server for serving up crystal reports that talk to network & local Access databases. We are not using any COM objects or CFX tags at all, nor are we utilizing WDDX. We have one web service running which is used for logging into an NT domain (we used Rob Rusher's example to setup NT authentication from ColdFusion and published it with slight modifications as a web service). This is the basis of security on our Intranet. Also, I'll reiterate that the site was running fine on CF 4.5.2- the problems with server hangups started with CF MX, and then only once in production and receiving a higher amount of traffic. Now, I am not the only one having problems with server hangups. There is a very long thread on the ColdFusion webforums currently: http://webforums.macromedia.com/coldfusion/messageview.cfm?catid=143&threadi d=468954. Clearly, server hangup problems have been a widespread issue. So far today Updater 3 has behaved well. We have not had a crash. If it makes it through the day, that will be 1 hangup in just under 4 days- MUCH better than Updater 2 was doing. I'd recommend to anybody running CF MX Updater 2 to upgrade immediately- it's to the people on CF 5 that I'd suggest to keep an eye out for a little while longer first- but updater 3 may very well be the time to jump to MX. If you'd like any more info, feel free to ask! I'm eager to help, since this really is such an important issue for the future of CF. Thanks, Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Sean A Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 12:10 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CFMX Updater 3 Available On Friday, Mar 28, 2003, at 07:16 US/Pacific, Ruggiero, Kevin D wrote: > But, I want to let those who may be thinking of going to production > level with CF MX know that it may be a good idea to give it a month or > so at > least and see what kind of feedback comes in. I'm not yet convinced > that CF > MX with updater 3 is necessarily up to snuff just yet. I'm sorry you are experiencing problems with your setup. Many people have been running CFMX in production successfully, even before Updater 3. The Macromedia "ColdFusion Examples" server has been in production for a year now with virtually no downtime. It was initially running a beta of CFMX (yes, we put a beta into production!) and then upgraded it to CFMX Enterprise when that shipped. As far as I know, it's still running the base release. And macromedia.com itself is running CFMX for J2EE w/Updater 3 and has behaved very smoothly, handling a lot of traffic. Can you tell us more about your configuration and the sort of code you are running? COM, CFX, any unusual configurations? O/S, CPU, RAM, database etc. Perhaps your problems are due to the database drivers you are using? The more we know, the more likely we are to be able to help. Sean A Corfield -- Director, Architecture Web Technology Group -- Macromedia, Inc. tel: (415) 252-2287 -- cell: (415) 717-8473 aim/iChat: seancorfield -- http://www.macromedia.com An Architect's View -- http://www.macromedia.com/go/arch_blog Announcing Macromedia DevNet Subscriptions Maximize your power with our new premium software subscription Find out more: http://www.macromedia.com/go/devnetsubs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
