Re: Coldfusion Server Reboot

2009-09-08 Thread Alan Rother
If you set the Application timeout to 14 days, then your server will hold the application variables in memory for up to 14 days of absolutely no activity without clearing them. Setting it to 14 days does not mean that after two weeks your application will restart. If you want to set an auto

Re: Coldfusion Server Reboot

2009-09-08 Thread Dave Watts
Thanks for the info. So do you think it would be out of the ordinary for most CF Admins to set createTimeSpan for 14 or more days? I do think this would be out of the ordinary. That's not to say that it shouldn't be done in some cases. But usually, most CF admins tend to stick fairly close

RE: Coldfusion Server Reboot

2009-09-08 Thread Jake Churchill
Usually there's an applicationTimeout flag set. I often set it to 2 days (createTimeSpan(2,0,0,0)). If that is the case, onApplicationStart will run the first time your application is accessed after that timeout. You'd want to factor that into it as well. You could also write out a file

Re: Coldfusion Server Reboot

2009-09-08 Thread Dave Watts
On average, how often should a CF server be rebooted, assuming the server is not being rebooted to fix a problem. I have an app that runs once, each time function OnApplicationStart runs, and I'm trying to get an idea of how often the app may run. Any info from any CF Admins would be

Re: Coldfusion Server Reboot

2009-09-08 Thread Byte Me
Thanks for the info. So do you think it would be out of the ordinary for most CF Admins to set createTimeSpan for 14 or more days? ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House

Re: Coldfusion Server Reboot

2009-09-08 Thread Ian Skinner
I'm not sure how this affects your discussion. But we commonly go months and months between server reboots. Also it should be understood that the application timeout value is how long the server waits for another request. I.E if your timeout is 14 days, then the application will with that

RE: Coldfusion Server Reboot

2009-09-08 Thread Jake Churchill
: Coldfusion Server Reboot Thanks for the info. So do you think it would be out of the ordinary for most CF Admins to set createTimeSpan for 14 or more days? ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them

Re: Coldfusion Server Reboot

2009-09-08 Thread Matt Robertson
Alan Rother wrote: If you want to set an auto refresh on your application variables, to force them to refresh, then I would create a scheduled tasks that passes in a url var which could trigger the onApplicationStart from the onRequestStart I find it can be extremely helpful to do that with