There has been a pretty serious discussion thread going on in the ColdFusion Macromedia Online Forum since October: "CFMX hangs periodically:"
http://webforums.macromedia.com/coldfusion/messageview.cfm?catid=143&thr eadid=468954 I'm too new to this community to recognize names of cf-talk participants in the macromedia forums, so I was curious to know whether anybody here has been experiencing problems with CFMX. Maybe I missed such an exchange already. But, I'll try to summarize the "CFMX hangs periodically" discussion thread: Everybody seems to be running CFMX with at least updater 1 on 2K with SP3. Most are using IIS 5.0. A few people said the problem was IIS and that the webserver that comes bundled with MX was great. Somebody else said they saw the same problems in MX on Linux. Basically, jrun.exe just stops running occasionally. Thread counts on the jrun.exe climbs very high. Handle count also climbs very high. Most report no spiking in CPU or memory or anything except queued requests. There was some of the usual talk about properly locking Application variables and vulnerability to race conditions. But I know I, for one, am not using ANY Application variables right now because I have stripped down my server to running a single application to see if it continues to lock up occasionally - it does. Some have tried scheduling a java garbage collection routine and restarting jrun.exe. Others have reported no success with this solution. Some report a correlation with heavy load. Others, like myself, see no such correlation (as I am typing, my server just locked up again.) I can inflict 2000% plus load testing on my box with no impact on performance. But then I can go home for a few hours and it'll invariably fail before bedtime. Some are using SQL Server - others Oracle. I see that Lee Fuller actually did bring this up in this cf-talk mailing list and according to his post in the forum, solved the issue by going back to ColdFusion 5. -This after working closely with MM support. I guess I am just wondering if that's it... I am really reluctant to do this because many of my applications are built on CFMX components... But maybe abandoning MX is the only solution??? Funny thing is, all of my apps ran just fine on this same configuration for almost two months. Nothing has changed. NOTHING! Anyway, this struck me as a pretty serious issue that Macromedia has not really been addressing - but it seemed to not get much play time on cf-talk so I thought I'd ask whats up? -j ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
