We had an interesting fail that happened yesterday.
We had a user send out a large amount of mail during the day which choked off almost all of our bandwidth. When this happened, it collapsed our VPN tunnel. This tunnel is how we make our connection to our Oracle Database. With the DB down of course regular CF functionally was fine until code that accesses the DB is executed. What appeared to happen is the site tried to make a DB connection and eventually timed out. This process continued over and over again with each attempted connection to the DB until Jrun crashed or became unresponsive. When I saw the Jrun error message, my first thought was to restart CF and Apache. This fixed the issue for the time until another connection to the DB was attempted. At that point this whole process restarted itself which lead to another crash. Eventually, we discovered that the VPN tunnel was not operational and that was what prevented the DB connections. The question I have from my boss is *what can we do to prevent this*? I think the answer is there is nothing we can do. My suggestion from the experience yesterday is to ensure the tunnel is operational. I don't think there is anything else that can be done. Thanks in advance, Mallory Woods ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:348806 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
