Many thanks for your help. Reinstalling seems to have done the trick. I think that there appears to be plenty of hard disk space for Coldfusion so hopefully it will now be ok. We will keep a careful eye on it but certainly none of the Enterprise processes are now running.
Thanks again! Dave At 07:50 17/12/2002 -0500, you wrote: >The components you selected when you initially did the install as an >Enterprise version are still there. Re-run the installer and select NO to >those components this time. > >Deb > >-----Original Message----- >From: David Phipps [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 4:57 AM >To: CF-Linux >Subject: ColdFusion Server 5 on Cobalt RaQs > > >Hi, > >I wonder if anybody could advise on this issue? We are running Coldfusion >5 Professional on a Sun >Cobalt RaQ4 with 512Mb of RAM. > >A couple of days ago we noticed that the red 'warning light' was being >displayed in the Cobalt web >control panel alerting us to a low memory situation. We have never >encountered this before and >checked everything very carefully fearing that an unexpected drain on >system resources might point >to a compromised/hacked machine. > >Everything seemed fine until we ran a 'top' command in a Terminal >window. It revealed that several >processes were running which shouldn't be including one ('CANamingAdapter') >which was running 5 >times and collectively sucking out 85% of available memory. A quick glance >at the ColdFusion manual >showed that all these random processes were parts of the Enterprise edition >of ColdFusion and as a >Professional serial number is installed they should not be running. > >Trying to stop ClusterCATS and the Application Manager didn't work and >instead we had to run: >'/opt/coldfusion/bin/cfam-start' whereupon it then told us that ClusterCATS >was already running! We >could then run: '/etc/rc.d/init.d/btccmgr stop' and it returned to normal. > >We have just checked our other Cobalt RaQ4 (with the same spec.) and it is >also running these extra >processes but 'CANamingAdapter' is only using about 5% of available >RAM. Could somebody possible >explain the following: > >1. Why is ColdFusion running as Enterprise version when it is serialised >as Professional? It was >installed in both cases as 'demo' mode and then serialised - is this the >reason? > >2. How can we get it to not run these processes on boot up? It seems to >take from 5 to 10 minutes >for the cfserver/cfexec to start serving pages but during this time another >glance at the 'top' >output shows that all the Enterprise processes are up and running - are >they competing for resources >and stopping cfserver/cfexec from loading promptly? > >3. Has anybody else had similar problems like this with a Cobalt RaQ? > > >Many thanks. > >Dave > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=14 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=14 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.14
