Hi Dave. Many thanks for your reply. We'll give this some thought. I'm not sure how cfflush comes into play but we'll dig into it a bit.
N ............................................................................ .. CitySoft, Inc. | http://www.citysoft.com Phone: (866) 751-1992 | Direct: (617) 899-5395 | Fax: (617) 507-0444 Spend Less >> Do More - Community Enterprise combines great features with an affordable price. ............................................................................ .. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Watts [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2012 7:22 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: "Fire and forget" logging on CF Standard - best option? > > > > We're trying to determine what would be the most effective way to do > > "fire and forget" logging in our CMS / CRM system. The goal is to > > improve performance by not having the page loads have to wait for the > > logging portion of the code. We would like it to be a usable > solution > > on CF Standard 9 (and possibly earlier versions). We've used > cfthread > > a bit for this and it works pretty well. But, the concern is that CF > > Standard limits the number of threads you can use (to 10, I think). > > > > We've looked at using an event gateway too, which seems like it would > > be a great solution but my understanding is that this is also > > throttled to some extent on CF 9 to some extent. So, I'm not sure if > > we would face a bottleneck problem that way. > > > > Are there other alternatives that we're not thinking about? > > Perhaps you could do the logging in onRequestEnd, after returning the > page to the browser using CFFLUSH? The user wouldn't have to wait, in > that case, although other users' requests may end up in the queue a bit > longer. > > You might also spend some time minimizing the work that logging does. > Are you logging to a database? Maybe you could defer that, and write to > a file (should generally be faster), then later on use a scheduled task > (or some other alternative outside of CF) to read the file into the > database. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > http://training.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA > Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > instruction at our training centers, online, or on > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:350716 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
