> Yes, SmartHeap is causing our problems. I read the Allaire page
> "Looking At ColdFusion Memory Usage" yesterday. I guess I need to know
> how to disable SmartHeap or free up the memory it reserves.
Are you sure SmartHeap is the culprit? Unless you are handling really huge
files, CF should (in theory) not be consuming all that RAM. If you are
indeed transfering huge files using CFFILE, there may be an alternative to
CFFILE which would do a better job.
-Cameron
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Cameron Childress
ElliptIQ Inc.
p.770.460.7277.232
f.770.460.0963
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sim Graves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 4:20 PM
> To: CF-Server
> Subject: Re: CFFILE Eats up all RAM
>
>
> Dear Cameron,
>
> Yes, SmartHeap is causing our problems. I read the Allaire page
> "Looking At ColdFusion Memory Usage" yesterday. I guess I need to know
> how to disable SmartHeap or free up the memory it reserves.
>
> Sim
>
>
>
> Cameron Childress wrote:
> >
> > > SP6 (don't say it, I know SP6=Bad).
> >
> > SP6 or SP6a? SP6a should be better.
> >
> > > When we use CFFILE to upload a file, the file increases the size of
> > > coldfusion.exe and never decreases,
> >
> > How large are the files? See if reading this article helps:
> >
> > Looking At ColdFusion Memory Usage:
> > http://www.allaire.com/Handlers/index.cfm?ID=15014&Method=Full
> >
> > >From above article:
> > "because ColdFusion 4.5 incorporates the latest version of
> SmartHeap, which
> > no longer returns unused memory to NT. Instead, memory is held, assuming
> > ColdFusion may reuse it in the near future. While this method
> is faster and
> > more efficient, SmartHeap can lead to confusion when looking at memory
> > statistics on NT."
> >
> > -Cameron
> >
> > --------------------
> > Cameron Childress
> > ElliptIQ Inc.
> > p.770.460.7277.232
> > f.770.460.0963
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Sim Graves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 2:25 PM
> > > To: CF-Server
> > > Subject: CFFILE Eats up all RAM
> > >
> > >
> > > We're running CF4.5 NTserver 4.0 SP6 (don't say it, I know SP6=Bad).
> > > When we use CFFILE to upload a file, the file increases the size of
> > > coldfusion.exe and never decreases, even after the file is written to
> > > the disk. After a few uploads all of our 500megs of RAM is gone.
> > >
> > >
> > > At the Allaire forum all I could find was a suggestion to drop CFFILE
> > > and use PERL. This can't be the only solution (I hope).
> > >
> > > Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > >
> > > Sim Graves
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