Found out what the problem was - apparently, JRUN was taking longer to start than ColdFusion. ColdFusion would start, but JRUN wouldn't be accepting connections yet, so CF would sit waiting and eventually timeout. (The way it was explained to me, Since JRUN uses the Java engine it does not properly report to Windows its status, which creates contention issues between it and CF).
The fix was to go into w2k3 services and set the recovery options for CF application server to automatically restart and retry if it times out or fails to start. Apparently, services in Windows are set by default NOT to try to restart. -Christophe Maso > This is problem that our Windows system engineers haven't been able to > figure out. On a newly-built box, when it reboots, sometimes the CF > application server service won't start. When this happens, which isn't > always, a second or third reboot allows it to start up just fine. > > Note that our box also seems to take a while to come up; normally we'd > expect about 5 minutes max, butit often takes 10 minutes. The > registry is fine; no junk in it, and steady at a size of 41k. And my > nightmare is that one day we'll reboot and CF will decide to hang > permanently. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? I'm > trying to first figure out if this is likely a system problem or an > application/coding problem. Could any setting in CF admin or any bad > coding practices cause something like this to happen? We're completely > up to date on all patches; running CFMX 6.1 and SQL server 2000 on a > Win 2003 server box (w/ IIS 6). Thanks, > > Christophe Maso ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:10:5159 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/10 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:10 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.10 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
