No time now, and you can ping me off list, but I'll tell you FR is fantastic, highly critical in a heavy load environment, and it was a standing order with my previous team that whenever a server is purchased that FR is always part of the quote and budget process.
Steve 'Cutter' Blades Adobe Certified Expert Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer ____________ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com Co-Author "Learning Ext JS 3.2" Packt Publishing 2010 https://www.packtpub.com/learning-ext-js-3-2-for-building-dynamic-desktop-style-user-interfaces/book "The best way to predict the future is to help create it" On 3/9/2011 2:43 PM, Bobby Hartsfield wrote: > 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:342860 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
