Are the client variables in a database? If so, I would run a query on the CF tables to get a count of records. It could be your attack was worse than you think and have a boat load of records. An attack like that would likely result in a set of client variables for each request.
The query to purge the database will lock the tables. Any application using client variables would basically have to wait until that is done and keep chewing up memory. I know this was an issue in CF8, not sure if it's still a linger issue in newer versions, as that is around the time we stopped using client variables. @Mark, I want to say both CF 9 & 10 install with Cookie as the default client storage. This could just be how we provision our servers however. I remember the days of CF taking an hour to start if your client var registry was out of control. We had the oops moment on our shared servers long ago. Regards, Byron Mann Lead Engineer & Architect HostMySite ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:358992 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
