Hi all,
The "Looking at CF Mem Usage" article is very good, I learnt quite a lot
from it. Unfortunately none of it made any difference to fixing the problem
for us. The only reliable fix we've found is restarting the CF service,
which is no fix at all. Cutting the stuffing from the article you can
precis it as
1. Acquiring and releasing memory IN CF.4 is a drain on the server so we
2. Released CF 4.5 with SmartHeap, so now
3. We'll fill your memory up to ease the drain on resources
4. So now you should get more memory to
5. Allow apps that were working fine in 4.0 with less RAM to keep chugging
along.
6. Now you should revisit all your apps and shrink them
PS: I think we've busted CFFILE and CFHTTP, they'll sneak up and bite you.
If there is a way to turn SmartHeap off (assuming it is the underlying
cause), please tell me. There's some really really neat stuff in 4.5 that
we are using but this whole memory thing has left us very sour. LET MY
MEMORY GO!.. did I say that? <G>
Craig Harcombe
Danaclese
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sim Graves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 8:19 AM
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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