Munson, Jacob wrote: >>CFMX7 is a memory hog. We have to specially tweak it to get it to run >>stable on our 256 MB VPS's. Even then, if you do anything that's >>slightly memory intensive, we will recommend you get something bigger >>then a basic VPS. > > > So, unless you're doing dumb things (things like huge text processing > tasks on a production box), 256 works fine then?
Well, if you keep in mind that every time you create a variable, it's going to be stored in RAM, then you factor in an entire CF application. Then, even non-dumb things can become an issue. We got it to work and run stable on it's own, but if you're doing anything significant, you're probably going to run into trouble. CFMX7 just has a fairly significant footprint. > >>In addition, CFMX7 will not run without X installed. It'll throw an >>error message if you try. X doesn't have to be running, but >>it has to be >>installed. > > > I didn't know that. That's a pretty shortsighted thing for Macromedia > to do (I /meant/ Macromedia, because they were the ones that did it). > Hopefully that's fixed in CF 8. > Blame Java for that one. I don't know the details on Windows, but on Linux, Java uses the libraries of X in order to do it's image processing. (I would assume it's similar on Windows... but when do you ever run Windows without a GUI huh?) So... whenever you do anything with images in CFMX7 or BD or Java in general, you're actually using the image manipulation code from X. Personally, that's one of my pet peevs with Java in general. I've always wished that Java would "bake in" something like GD (PHP and Perl do this) for it's image manipulation - that way, it wouldn't be dependent on it's platform OS for it's image manipulation functionality. Plus, GD always seems to do a better job as far as quality goes. -- Warm regards, Jordan Michaels Vivio Technologies http://www.viviotech.net/ Blue Dragon Alliance Member [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:258785 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
