Brook, Since people only seem to mention CFMX when it does bad, I'm going to mention when it does good.
I've personally had atleast half dozen CFMX installs go fine. The sites on the boxes run fine. Even under load. So I for one say 'CFMX is ready for production. (just build your site to take advantage of it)'. I would and do recommend it for anyone looking to build a web app. We launched a pretty good site that was half CFMX, half CF5 less than a month after CFMX's release date. No updater was available and we had no problems. The network load-balancing solution our client had selected went down before the CF servers did under load. We had 200 simulateous requests chugging along on our Win2k server with IIS5. If your server is crashing at 6 I'd check your code first and stop complaining about the server. Something bigger seems to be going on. If you upgraded from 5, then did you test your app before hand? Any load testing would have brought this problem up. Good luck, t ********************************************************************** Tyler M. Fitch Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer http://isitedesign.com ********************************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: Brook Davies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 2:45 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: CFMX Server Crash #4 for the day.. Well, our CFMX server just crashed for the 4th time today. I've had the perfmon open all day and have been watching the traffic. We had an average of 12 connections when the running requests started to grow and grow. As I mentioned in my previous post, there were 3 running requests that had not finished for hours. As far as the number of CFMX request, as I was watching it, it never went above 6. This really means there was a max of 3 running requests (on top of the 3 that were already dead), it would go up to 6 and then back down to 3. Those 3 threads weren't going anywhere. Then I noticed that the running requests was growing incrementally, so I tried to make an HTTP request to the server....and it did not respond. I checked the running requests, and there was one more. The server was DEAD, HUNG, FINISHED - KAPUT. The Perfmon counter restarted jrun when the running requests reached 10, and the server came back to life. Thank you Lee Fuller for this temporary fix. What is Macromedia doing about this? CFMX is not ready for production. If your sales of CFMX are not what you expected, there's a fairly obvious reason why. I certainly, based on my experience, would not recommend (and I think anyone running CFMX would agree) anyone to switch to CFMX anytime soon. Unless you have plenty of spare time to baby sit your server. Brook ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
