I don't think Enterprise will help you. If you have unstable applications, you have unstable applications. Enterprise would let you cluster multiple servers together, which might let you reduce utilization per instance and potentially eliminate request timeouts from CPU concurrency, but it's not going to solve memory leaks. However, 350MB for JRun is appallingly low - you're clearly not caching much. What is using the other 3.5GB of RAM? What other processes are running on the box that might be competing with CF? Have you done any performance testing of your apps under load?
Bottom line, Enterprise edition isn't any faster than Standard edition. It provides extra functionality (including faster email spooling), but not any reduction in memory consumption, protection against memory leaks, increased performance, etc. Those are all application and/or server issues, independent of the CF runtime. cheers, barneyb On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Michael Patti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've seen various postings around this subject, but wanted to get some advice > on my particular situation. > > I have a dedicated Win2K3 box with 4 GB ram and a dual-core xeon running IIS > 6 and CFMX7 Standard Edition. The box is located at a tier-one data center. > > I have 18 web sites ranging from a few pages up to several thousand pages. > In total, my sites generate around 50,000 hits per day; and the largest of my > sites sees around 75K users per month. > > I realize that doesn't seem like a lot of traffic; but all of these sites are > for non-profit associations with small membership levels (avg. 600 > members/association). > > What these sites *do* have are a lot of Coldfusion applications. All the > members areas are run on a commercially built CF application (12 instances of > this), and we have upwards of 50 other custom-built applications. Several of > these applications make use of persistent CFCs (scoped at the application > level), so at any given time, at least 350 MB of the server's RAM is being > used by JRUN. I have CF datasources set up for 47 separate MS SQL 2000 > databases, all of which run on a separate, dedicated server at a different > location from my webserver. > > Lately, I've been noticing a lot of instability on the server, with request > timeouts, what appear to be memory leaks, and general end-user unhappiness. > > I've been trying my darndest to tune my applications and the CF server using > best practices found on various sources (including this site, Coldfusion > Muse, Robi Sen's blog, etc.), but lately I've been spending at least an > hour/day wrestling with the server, and I'm about ready to say uncle. > > Adobe's info says that CFMX Standard edition is "ideal for delivering a > single website or application on a single server", and clearly I'm way beyond > having a single site or application. > > However, I'm wondering whether others on the list have run the standard > edition with a similar number of sites/applications. > > Let me know if you think it's time to upgrade, or whether I should just keep > tuning this fiddle. > > Thanks, > Michael > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:306280 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
