When my rss feed became too much of a resource hog (generating it on every request), I just made my blog software generate a new static rss page every time I added a blog entry.
>A few days ago, I decided to put the last 3 blog entries on those >pages, using the rss CFC just like I do on my personal home page... >you know, maybe drive extra readers to my blog. > >This generated something in the neighborhood of 500-1000 requests per >hour to my rss feed on rickroot.com > >Of course, the feed itself changes AT MOST 3-4 times a day.... > >At any rate, over the last few days, since I implemented that, >Coldfusion started crapping out every so often - a problem I've never >had before on this server. Took me a little while but after looking >through logs and stuff, I finally figured out that rss.cfc was causing >timeouts somewhere, and eventually this would bring coldfusion down >because of the amount of requests that were getting hung up. > >Now I'm caching the rss feed and only loading it on application >restart and also randomly every 1000 requests or so.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:279174 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
