I have a lot of new information now but I'd really appreciate some help on this because I still have the problem.
I've never had much luck getting response to my questions on this forum. If I am doing something wrong please let me know. I'm going to *try* to keep this as simple as possible. I am able to simplify it because of all the testing I have done in the last few weeks. I have a Cold Fusion Scheduled Task the purpose of which is to start a report if no other report is running at that time. The scheduled task fires Event1 which checks if a report is running and if there is no report running it fires Event2 which starts a report. I have separate logging in Event1 and Event2 so I can tell when each one fires. Event1 finds no report running and fires Event2 which starts ReportA. One minute later it checks and finds ReportA running so it does not fire Event2. This continues until five minutes after ReportA started. Five minutes after ReportA starts my logging confirms that Event1 fires and correctly determines that ReportA is not running and therefore does not call Event2. HOWEVER, my logging also indicates that Event2 does get fired and as a result ReportB is started. This results in an undesirable circumstance because these are very large reports and when run concurrently they use up all available memory on the server. To debug this problem I turned off all Scheduled Tasks except 1 and found that both calls to Event2 are coming from the original call to Event1. If I turn off all Scheduled Tasks no reports ever get fired so it can not be a Cold Fusion Scheduled Task call on another server somewhere. The really odd thing is that once two reports are running no other reports start until both reports finish. Once both reports finish the cycle repeats. A report starts, then five minutes later another one starts. Never four minutes or six minutes, always five. I assure you I did not code anything that does this. I am checking if a report is running but not when it started. To further add to the puzzle if I manually run the event called by the Cold Fusion Scheduled Task this problem does not occur. It then correctly waits until ReportA finishes before starting ReportB. Nothing happens at the five minute mark. Any thoughts on what could be happening would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Bryan From: Bryan S [mailto:bryansgroup...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 2:11 PM To: cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Subject: Phantom Scheduled Tasks I have a scheduled task that starts a report every 12 minutes. Sometimes a report is started 5 minutes after the scheduled report starts. There is no evidence anywhere of the scheduled task being fired. There is no manual process starting the report. I have discovered long ago that modifying a scheduled task while it is running creates a phantom hidden task that can only be exorcised by rebooting the server. To allow reconfiguration of the task without worrying about this problem I wrote a process that can be configured. The scheduled task calls the process and acts according to its configuration. The scheduled task in question is set to fire a report process every twelve minutes. The process of the report can be followed in an application log. The desired report starts and is logged. At seemingly random times a report starts five minutes later. It is always five minutes never four or six etc. Again, there is no manual process starting this. There is no evidence of the scheduled task firing. There is no loop in the application that could start multiple reports with one url firing. What could be starting the report. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:331460 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
