Thanks for the suggestion. I discussed DFS replication with the team and one member said that it was a dog and very difficult to debug. Have you had issues?
All I need to do is keep an images directory in sync between 2 servers so I don't need some giant enterprise level piece of software, just something that does the job. -Jake On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:00 AM, WebSite CFTalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > You should try to setup dfs replication between the two servers / directory > structures instead of using watch folders. > > That would be more efficient and would also give you near real time sync > between the two servers. > > "set and forget" > > Mvh > Helge Hetland > WebSite AS > > Den 5. nov. 2010 kl. 16:50 skrev "Jake Churchill" <[email protected]>: > > > > > I'm using the directory watcher event gateway to sync files between 2 > > servers that are load balanced. The client uses both file upload tools > and > > local shares to update files (all located in an images directory). They > > have 2 sites and the images directory on one site is pushing 2GB and the > > other is about 1.2GB. So, I have 2 directory watcher instances running, > one > > for each image directory. This is the same directory watcher, I just > load 2 > > different config files. When images are added to server 1, they are > copied > > to server 2, same for changes and deletes. > > > > My question is the following: > > > > I've never used directory watchers before. I have these scheduled to run > at > > 5 minute incremenets and when they run the processor usage increases to > over > > 30%. It makes me nervous consistently using this much proc so I want to > > know if this is normal. Is there a more efficient way to sync images > > between servers using coldfusion? > > > > FYI, the images are not all in the images directory, there are about 20 > > sub-directories and the directory watchers run recursively. The server > this > > is running on is quite powerful. It's a 64bit windows server 2003 with a > > quad-core proc and 8GB RAM. The JVM has been tuned for this machine. > This > > is CF8 Standard. (Both machines are the same) > > > > Thanks for any input. > > > > -Jake > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:338938 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
