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On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:56:56 -0500, Dave Carabetta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:13:04 -0400, gijs meirmans > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the documentation of cfexecute the effective user is mentioned. > > I like to know how to find out the user who executes the executable fired > > by cfexecute. I think this is the effective user, but when i try to found > > out about it on the web I could not find a thing about it. > > > > Can anybodie help me with this, i like to use scp to transfer some files > > from the databaseserver server to the aplicationserver server. > > > > It's the user that the coldfusion process (or jrun if you're using the > J2EE version) is running as. > > However, I would strongly advise that you stay away from cfexcute on > unix systems if you can. Because of the way the fork() method was > implemented on unix systems (which is what cfexecute calls under the > hood to run the external process) it duplicates the amount of memory > of the calling process to run the external process, which is crazy. > So, for example, if your JRun process is currently taking up 1 GB of > RAM (a pretty common JVM size), then cfexecute will run the external > process using 1 GB of RAM, which will very quickly throw an Out of > Memory exception. I learned this the hard way so I figured I'd save > you the hassle down the road. In single-user testing you might not see > the error because you might have enough swap space to create this > second process, but any more than a couple of users will bring your > system to a grinding halt. So I'm not sure what you're trying to do, > but I would find another way to do it. Mind you, this is not > Macromedia's problem -- it's a UNIX problem that is just a known > implementation issue. > > Regards, > Dave. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - CFDynamics http://www.cfdynamics.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:185739 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
