[ACFUG Discuss] Speed and resources: better to do client or session var?

2008-05-27 Thread Derrick Peavy
Probably discussed to death 10 years ago, 5 years ago, one day ago. I don't know. Can't find definitive answers. Wondering... Does anyone think or dare I ask does anyone "know" if one type of variable structure is faster or less resource intensive than another? In particular, I have an app

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Speed and resources: better to do client or session var?

2008-05-27 Thread Douglas Knudsen
I'd look at what you need to solve here: do you really need client vars or session vars? performance wise, session vars would be faster as they are in RAM where you have your client vars set to use a DB. A DB lookup is going to be slower than RAM. DK On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Derrick Pea

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Speed and resources: better to do client or session var?

2008-05-27 Thread Fennell, Mark P.
>From my experience anything will be faster than a cookie. mf From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas Knudsen Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 9:57 AM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Speed and resources: better to do

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Speed and resources: better to do client or session var?

2008-05-27 Thread Shane Heasley
It is a balancing act. For sites without too many visitors I prefer session vars for security and speed. "Too many" is a function of how much memory the server has and if there are multiple sites running on it etc. Modern hardware usually has so much memory that you can easily track thousands of

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Speed and resources: better to do client or session var?

2008-05-27 Thread Steven Ross
Also remember the more you have to add stuff to a cookie the longer the request is going to run because the cookie is submitted on every request. So right now it might be just a couple of variables but, as scope inevitably creeps so will the time of every request. On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:18 AM,

[ACFUG Discuss] Problems installing CFMX 7.0.2 on Win2003 Server

2008-05-27 Thread Councill, Scott
I am installing the coldfusion-702-win.exe trial on Windows 2003 R2 SP2 and am running into problems. I checked the installation log and all items were successful although I get an error message at the end of the process. I uninstalled 7.0.0 completely and ran through the process of installing

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Speed and resources: better to do client or session var?

2008-05-27 Thread John Mason
Session variables are faster "generally" and solve all the issues you need. There are always trade offs. For example saving the info in a session scope with take up the server's memory as oppose to saving the info in a client variable cookie, etc. But in most cases, approx. 98% of the time, the ses

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Problems installing CFMX 7.0.2 on Win2003 Server

2008-05-27 Thread John Mason
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RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Speed and resources: better to do client or session var?

2008-05-27 Thread Dusty Hale
I second that. "I think" however, and there is a big "I think" there that technically the "request" scope is the fastest but of course it doesn't maintain state so probably not what you want. If the variables don't change values then you could consider the "application" scope. -d _ F

re: [ACFUG Discuss] Problems installing CFMX 7.0.2 on Win2003 Server

2008-05-27 Thread Mischa Uppelschoten ext 10
Can't speak to that specific issue, but have you seen http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=228c3aaa "ColdFusion MX 7 installation fails on Windows 2003 with SP1" ? Also, when I had install issues, I learned a lot by comparing miscellaneous .xml configuration files betwee

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Problems installing CFMX 7.0.2 on Win2003 Server

2008-05-27 Thread Councill, Scott
No error message on the last try. When it finishes, it tries to open the CF Admin to do the auto-configuring of the web server. It tells me that it reaches the web server but cannot display the page. It is not the usual "Page cannot be found" or "Page cannot be displayed" error that is common

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Problems installing CFMX 7.0.2 on Win2003 Server

2008-05-27 Thread John Mason
> It tells me that it reaches the web server but cannot display the page. It is not the usual "Page cannot be found" or "Page cannot be displayed" error that is common with IIS. Check your web server extensions, you should have several for coldfusion. If not, simply run the IISconnector batch fil