It looks like I will be x64 on Win2K8R2 for two of these boxes which will have only 4gb on memory, at least for now.
With that in mind... can I up my jvm settings a bit? On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Mark A. Kruger <[email protected]>wrote: > > Robert, > > Get a fairly "standard" set of JVM args and duplicate them on all 4. Since > you are running 32bit you will be limited to a 1.3 gig heap size (max 1280m > would be a good starting space with a 256 meg perm size). Since you don't > have time to do anything else I'd say go for it and see what happens. The > only thing that worries me is sessions... are you confident that your round > robin scheme will work and there's no problem with user information > (sessions) crossing from one to the other... or not crossing as the case > may > be :) > > -mark > > > Mark A. Kruger, MCSE, CFG > (402) 408-3733 ext 105 > www.cfwebtools.com > www.coldfusionmuse.com > www.necfug.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Rhodes [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 4:45 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: Help! Too much tracffic and too little time! > > > Thanks. I'll look into that. Being a Windows guy, I am not sure how well > Squid and I would get along. :) > > On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > In addition to other comments, it might be worth spending a minute > > reading up on Squid: > > > > http://www.squid-cache.org/ > > > > Caching some or all of the site could mean you can do the entire thing > > with just 2 CF machines. In my experience, the bottleneck for Squid > > is not the OS or Squid itself, but the capacity of the network cards > > in the machine. It can handle ALOT of traffic. The learning curve > > required to implement this may or may not be within your time window. > > > > -Cameron > > > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Rob Rhodes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hello. > > > > > > I have been a lurker on this board for a while, and never thought I was > > qualified enough to offer opinions. Well, that has not changed. > > > > > > But now I could really use some advice on how to gear up quickly to > > handle a ton of traffic on a cf9 site. > > > > > > I can't really go into the details, but I have just inherited a cf9/SQL > > server site that gets well over a million page views per day. It was > > previously running on multiple servers using shared array. > > > > > > It's an impossible task, but I have to have this up and running this > > weekend. So, I don't have any time or money for complex solutions. I > just > > need to this all to stay up long enough to figure out a proper plan. > > > > > > Until then, here is my working plan. Please tell me what you think. > > > > > > I have 4 cf9 standard licences, and four servers running win2k3 x86 > > (fairly fast processors and 4gb ram each). I have a fifth win2k3 server > x64 > > running SQL Server 2005. These servetrs are recent installs and do not > have > > any other sites on them. > > > > > > My plan is to load the site on all four servers, all pointing to the > same > > database server (it appears much of the queries in the site are cached) > > > > > > I would then set up round-robin DNS to do the poor-mans load > > distribution. > > > > > > Most importantly I am hoping some of the gurus here might have some jvm > > tuning suggestions to help handle the load. > > > > > > Ok let me have it. Is there any hope, or am I just hopelessly screwed? > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:344343 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
