Scheduling lots of ColdFusion tasks in a limited window

[Earl, George]

We're running CF9 Enterprise in a pretty robust intranet environment - multiple 
CPUs, lots of RAM, our own instance, load balanced across two servers.

We have about 60 scheduled tasks that need to run in a two hour period each 
morning. Each task hits either a mainframe database or a data warehouse 
database. Most tasks complete in a few seconds to a minute (lots of data), some 
take a couple of minutes or longer.

We are adding new tasks at a steady rate and the two hour window is getting 
pretty crowded.

How concerned would you be about starting more than one task at the same time 
on the same server?

What would guide you in determining a limit on how many tasks you would start 
at the same time on the same server?

How concerned would you be about starting the same task(s) at the same time on 
each of the two load balanced servers?

Thanks!

George




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Re: Scheduling lots of ColdFusion tasks in a limited window

[Ian Skinner]

  Scheduled tasks are just URLs requested by a computerize built-in 
browser rather then a client in front of a human.

If the CFML code being run by the Scheduled task(s) could execute 
properly if two humans requested the URLs at the same time, their should 
be no problem with a computer doing the same thing.

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