Durn hand-helds! I did mean to say better. I know that the JVM heap size only goes to 1.5 gigs, and you may end up fighting with other apps that don't run well on the 32 bit emulation a 64 bit version of windows server offers, but I have a couple of 64bit servers running 2k3 r2 and I don't even have to restart coldfusion at all on them.
Dan On 3/26/09, Greg Luce <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dan, "noticeably" what? I think you missed a word that defines your post. > > Greg > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Dan Baughman <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > Enterprise doesn't offer perf increase, cf8 runs noticeably on 64 bit > > than cf7. Enterprise only offers cluster management. > > > > > > On 3/25/09, Ben Mueller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Apologies if this has been asked and answered countless times, but... > > > > > > We're about to upgrade our infrastructure from CF7 to 8, and are trying > > to > > > determine if the Enterprise edition is worth the cost. We've heard > > (mostly > > > from our hosting company) that CF8 Enterprise running on a 64-bit > server > > > offers a serious performance boost over CF8 standard, but I haven't > > really > > > been able to find any other sources that line up cost vs. performance > in > > any > > > meaningful way. We'd of course like to run Enterprise, but our > business > > > guys are likely to balk at the cost unless we have some good > ammunition. > > > > > > Our current production environment is 2 web boxes running Windows2003, > > IIS > > > and CF7 Standard. Glancing at the features of Enterprise over > Standard, > > > it's probably the case that we only really care about server monitoring > > and > > > maybe high-volume email--aside from speed improvements. > > > > > > Another wrinkle is that we're going to move to a virtual server > > environment > > > (specifically, Hosting.com's "Cloud 9" service, which runs on top of > > VMWare, > > > and just sounds really cool). If anybody has any words of wisdom about > > that > > > kind of environment (e.g. "it's production-ready" or "run screaming > > now"), > > > it would be appreciated. > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Ben > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:320992 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
