This isn't an answer to your question, but I had some suggestions. What DB are you using?
If you're using SQL server on windows are are quite a few thing you can watch in perfmon. hard drive reads/writes lock wait times CPU usage Avg Disk sec/read, write There are near infinite reasons for "occaisional slowdowns" on a site, but I have had it happen when a cached execution plan would decide to ignore an index and start doing table scans. I've found similar slow downs by keeping a close eye on lock escalations and drive activity on the SQL servers. If the slow downs are coming from your SQL server, it is imperative for you to find what is running at the time. If all the servers slow down at the same time they might be held up by locks or slow drive performance. (Where are your data files stored? transaction logs? temp db? Raid 5? 10? how many disks? etc..) Let me know what your DB is. If you're on SQL Server 2005, I have a web based tool I can dust off that shows you the running spids, locks, the statement being executed, and a link to the execution plan. It also optionally ties in with SeeFusion to get request information. (Though I think you said you had fusion reactor.) When it comes to diagnosing slow downs-- you can only be as good as your ability to look under the hood and know what's going on. ~Brad -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Maybe I need a SQL Service Consultant... From: Rick Root <rick.r...@webworksllc.com> Date: Mon, February 09, 2009 6:39 pm To: cf-talk <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> So I've mentioned it before... I have this site that's experiencing 15-20 seconds of "slow" every 12-17 minutes... depending on how busy the site is. It's not "standardized" enough for me to think it's related to any kind of scheduled tasks on either the CF server or the DB server. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:319098 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4