Think about it in terms of math. An instance of CF can only utilize 1G of RAM because of the JVMs limitations. You have a dual quad proc system with 8G of RAM. You leave 2G alone for the OS (in the case of Windows 2k3), and setup 3 instances of CF, utilizing 5G of your RAM altogether. This leaves you a little wiggle room for other apps on the server (maybe monitoring), allows you to utilize a systems resources that were otherwise being wasted, and creates three separate instances of CF that could be clustered to 'share the load' of an application. Or you could just separate applications in this manner, for instance: running data heavy front-end websites on one instance while maintaining manual process intensive site administrator on another and placing scheduled process intensive (report generation, batch image processing, etc.) on another.
Steve "Cutter" Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _____________________________ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com m g wrote: > Due to my concern of having to purchase multiple licenses in the event that I > need a cluster of servers at some point in the future I was advised that this > a legitimate concern by Adobe, however they also stated that CF Enterprise > allows you to install multiple CF instances on the same box with the same > license. > > What is the benefit of having multiple CF instances on the same server? Can > this assist with speed of applications, database queries, etc.? > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:282454 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
