All, I'd like to hear from some of you that might be running FusionReactor in HEAVY load production environments. I'd especially like to know if you have compared server performance statistics with and without Fusionreactor installed to measure its true overhead in your setup.
We have a very high traffic CF application that runs on many load balanced CF8 Enterprise servers. (we've had to reassure adobe reps that the numbers we are reporting are correct when they ask about traffic... it's quite funny) At one point, we invested in Fusionreactor (many copies of it) and installed it on our servers. It quickly helped us work through a performance issue we were having (Charlie Arehart actually helped us track it down through FusionReactor)... and as far as I was concerned, that made it all worth it. However, we eventually started seeing some spikes that IT deemed the result of having FusionReactor installed. I'll have to admit that performance did SEEM to get better without it installed... but I think it might have just been the "whole out of sight, out of mind" mentality. We no longer had a bird's eye view into what was actually happening in real time so everyone thought it was "better". Besides, too many people swear by FR for it to have any real noticeable overhead... right? I'd like to get us back to using it if at all possible so I'm wondering if there might be such a thing as bad FR configurations that could cause server performance issues. IIRC, the primary issues we saw were high jrun memory usage and high CPU utilization. Well... we are having the same issues now but there is no FR to blame. I have dug through jconsole and CF/IIS logs before, during and after we see these spikes and I have not found anything... which is exactly why I'd like to get FusionReactor back into the mix. I'm just starting to build up the arsenal behind the suggestion (since the one or two people I would have to convince are not the easiest people to do that with) So... what say all of you about FusionReactor's overhead in heavy load environments? .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com http://cf4em.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:342853 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
