We experienced severe slowness with the default JVM that ships with CF8 (Java 6). Ended-up downgrading to Java 5 and all is well. Here's a few links that discuss it:
http://corfield.org/blog/index.cfm/do/blog.entry/entry/Java_6_and_ColdFusion_8 http://www.mkville.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/2/4/ColdFusion-8-Random-Slowness-Downgrade-the-JVM http://www.compoundtheory.com/?action=displayPost&ID=270 Cheers, Kris > Don't know if they've addressed the class loading issue yet, but I do > know that 8 runs fantastic on 1.5. I had a script that was doing > Encrypt() on two separate values for 11k+ records (and databasing them). > It took over five minutes on 8 running on 1.6, and took about 40 sec on > 8 on 1.5. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:302588 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4

