Well it's honestly hard to say because my server has had issues under a light load and medium load. This could be between 5,000 page views per day to 20,000 page views (all CF). There are definitely issues. Thats why I posted. I want to see if any body is having great success with med-high traffic. Most others in the forum, mentioned in the previous post, seem to think the server crashes are attributed to load. I'm not so sure any more after a strange crash yesterday.
For me, and I think the others in the thread, the symptoms are always the number of running requests growing until the queued requests also starts to grow and this just goes on until the server completely stops server cfm pages. I've cut and pasted something I posted to the forums this morning. This is what happened when the server crashed yesterday. On my day off... I was uploading some new pages that had been tested on the development server and worked fine. The pages were very, very short and basic pages with not a single query or anything more advanced than a <cfoutput>. The page was a feature tour for the publicly accessible part of our site, and it only contains an image and a next | back button. After uploading it I tried stepping through the tour using the next back button. Every time I got to the 4th slide, it would not return anything and would just spin (the browser). I tried other pages on the site and everything worked fine. But, each time I went back to this particular page (which is an EXACT duplicate of the previous slide only with a new pageID passed to it), it hung. After trying this about 10 times and not yet realizing that the threads were never dying on the server, the server was officially dead. All of the available threads were filled and the queued requests began to grow. The time out unresponsive threads setting in the cf administrator does not always work for some reason. Brook At 02:35 PM 28/10/02 -0800, you wrote: >Hi Brook, > >I was reading your posts about the server crashing and the missing client >variables. What kind of load is your server under right now? > >We are in the process of moving to MX and are using it on our development >server only. There are 4-5 of us hitting it every day, making code changes, >testing, etc. Our server has been up for a couple weeks now with no problems >(we had missing client variables, but that was an application tag problem - >which I already offered to you as a suggestion for your problem). > >We have a ridiculously light load, but your posts have us a bit nervous as >our live site gets a lot of hits. If you could, would you give us an idea of >what kind of load we can expect the severs to barf under - if we get the >same problem? > >Thanks >Rob > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Brook Davies [mailto:brook@;maracasmedia.com] >Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 2:05 PM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: CFMX & med-high traffic sites > > >I'm curious; how many of you are running CFMX on medium - high traffic >sites without the server crashing?? My server crashes all the time. > >A thread about this topic is here >http://webforums.macromedia.com/coldfusion/messageview.cfm?catid=143&threadi >d=468954 > >Prior to upgrading to CFMX our app was extremely stable, now it crashs at >completely irregular intervals sometimes under very little load. > >Brook Davies > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
