Rick - I'm running 2-5 instances of CFMX7 and one CFMX6.1 instance on a WinXP machine with 1GB of memory and it runs fine. Of course, all of these instances aren't running at the same time (typically).
I've seen no pitfalls to this point - it actually works great and gives me tremendous flexibility. As for tutorials relevant to Windows/Apache the only one I know of - and believe me, I searched - is the one that Steven gave me. I shared it earlier in this thread, but here it is again: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/multi_instances04.html. That's literally the only one I know of at this point, but it got me over the hurdles I was facing. Caveat: this is a manual process. You will have to edit the httpd conf, but the final result is a fully functional multiserver platform. On 7/7/06, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not familiar at all with running multiple instances of CF or anything > else, > so where would I find a tutorials / guidelines / whitepaper, whatever, that > would > educate me and walk me through the setup and pitfalls of running multiple > instances of CF on a Win XP Pro machine and Apache server. I'm run CFMX7 > on a Win XP Pro machine and Apache right now, but it has only 1 GB of RAM. > > > Should I setup a server with more RAM to attempt multiple instances? > > I would really like to try to setup up two instances. Once to serve as a > production > server and the other for site / app testing. That would suffice for a long > time. > > Suggestions? > > Rick > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Snake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 9:40 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: CFMX7 Multiserver on Apache > > its not really a windows problem. > > Any process (e.g. application executable) running under 32 bit Windows > versions gets a set of virtual memory addresses (a Virtual Address Space) > going from 0 to 4,294,967,295 (2*32-1 = 4 GB), no matter how much RAM is > actually installed on the computer. Actually, this is essentially the same > for all operating systems running on 32 bit hardware that implement Virtual > Memory, including linux. > > In the normal, default Windows OS configuration, 2 GB of this virtual > address space are allocated to the process' private use and the other 2 GB > are allocated to shared and operating system use. > The only way to actually increase the size of the virtual address space > beyond 4 GB is by using 64 bit hardware with an operating system and > application built for that hardware. > > - > Snake > -----Original Message----- > From: Denny Valliant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 08 July 2006 02:18 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: CFMX7 Multiserver on Apache > > Even if you're running server? Sheesh. > No comment on whether or not people should tell people to use stuff other > than windows... ;-) > > We just upgraded a whole lab of XP machines to 4 gigs. How sad we were to > discover that 3gig limit. ;-( > > I'd thought it would work on server though... Oh well. There's all kinds of > silly stuff in the tech world. Fax modems that don't fax- but nobody > complains, 640k memory limits, > 8088 over risc or > whatever that was... Makes one laugh at times. Cry at others. > > [-| > :Denny > > On 7/7/06, Snake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Not if he is running windows 32bit, then it wont even use more then > > 3.5gb > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Denny Valliant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 08 July 2006 01:59 > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: CFMX7 Multiserver on Apache > > > > Maybe your server has 8 gigs of ram... > > > > Only way to get at all that is multiple instances, neh? > > :DeN > > > > > > On 7/7/06, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > What's the benefit of running multiple instances of CF? > > > > > > Rick > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:245783 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
