Checking the Limit Simultaneous Requsts box, and setting it to 10 certainly has no effect. One connection doing the query, everyone else just stuck. Interestingly, they make the connection to the database (I can see them attempting to log in, which they do as a different user), but they get no response from the login script until the query has finished.
It's sounding more and more like an ODBC issue ----------------------------- Stephen Richards 020 7903 3226 ------------------------------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Watts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 6:35 PM Subject: RE: Is Coldfusion REALLY multi threaded? > > At the moment, limit simultaneous requests is not ticked - > > perhaps I should and set it to 40. I'll try it and let > > you know. > > Setting it to forty would probably not be an especially good idea - that's > an extremely high value. CF is designed to take advantage of queuing > requests - some number get simultaneously processed and the rest go into a > queue, and are serviced when free threads are available for them. This is > supposed to be faster than simply processing all the requests at once (at > least in Windows) and it's been my experience that it is, in fact, faster. > > As Christine Lawson noted, the recommended number is somewhere around 3-7 > threads per processor. I'd add the caveat that to find the optimal number, > load testing is required, and that you can see significant performance > differences between the optimal number and the others. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > voice: (202) 797-5496 > fax: (202) 797-5444 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.

