[thelist] Cold Fusion Server is the Pig

[Seth Bienek]

Hi Frank,

Is this a recent development?  If so, check the code that you've written
since before the problem.  CFServer by itself doesn't make a habit of
sucking up all of your CPU cycles..  Are you running cfschedule?  I haven't
heard of any specific problems regarding cfschedule and cpu overuse, but
it's a squirrely little booger to begin with, and it's the only thing I'm
aware of that runs actively even when you aren't requesting cf templates..

Are the cycles taken up all of a sudden, or is there a gradual increase over
the course of an hour?

You can set up a log file using the NT performance monitor, to help get a
better idea of what's happening, and when.

There's an eye-opening article at Allaire's website that shows how to set
the resource monitor up to monitor memory usage:
http://allaire.com/handlers/index.cfm?id=15014

Follow the instructions, only instead of specifying the "Private Bytes"
counter, use  "% Processing Time", and set the sampling interval to whatever
is appropriate.

If there are templates being accessed on the cf server, you can perhaps
match corresponding CPU utilization jump times with the cfserver logs, IIS
logs, or both, to help isolate the culprit.

I'm sorry this email isn't very focused.  I'm up to my ass in aligators
today so I didn't have time to elaboprate as much as I'd like.  But I hope
it gets you headed in the right direction.

Take Care,

Seth

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Seth Bienek
Solutions Development Manager
Stonebridge Technologies, Inc.
972.455.7294 tel
972.404.9754 fax
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> -----Original Message-----
> After having disabled everything, it turns out that the personal cold
> fusion server is the one that has been sucking up all the CPU cycles.
>
> If I leave my machine alone, everything else off but the system
> monitor, I'll find that within an hour, suddenly the server will suck
> up 100% of the cycles, slowing my machine to a horribly painful grind
> (30 seconds for the Start menu to pop up, for example).
>
> I'm looking it up right now at Allaire, but I'm wondering if anyone
> else has had this experience? I'm using 4.5.2 (the latest version.)
> I'll still have plenty of ram left, though, so it turns out not to be
> a memory problem at all.