How long is the machine at 100% CPU usage? Seconds, minutes, hours? If
other applications on the machine are being affected, then apparently it
isn't OK for the CPU to be tied up this much.
Is the email server that sends those messages running on the same machine by
any chance? That could easily peg the meter for a long time after CF has
passed off its 8500 messages. If that's the case, a better solution would
be to use an outgoing SMTP server on another machine that can afford to be
tied up. If this isn't an option, then figure out a means for breaking up
the bursts into smaller blocks of messages. The CPU may still go to 100%
for short periods of time, but it should be less of a problem for other
applications. If the machine isn't particularly fast, or if the email
server software is a dog, then you might have to break it up into very small
chunks, perhaps as small as 250 messages at a time.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Kear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 5:50 PM
Subject: E-newsletter kills our server - any ideas?
> When we send our weekly e-newsletter (list of 8500 emails) our network guy
> complains that we're putting our server up to 100% and it kills the shop
> (asp, MS Site Server Commerce) and the site only comes up again after a re
> boot.
>
> Can anyone give any suggestions as to whether putting the server up to
> 100% usage would be such a huge problem? I thought that was the idea -
> to use full processing power to do the job as fast as possible. If it
> isnt desirable, how can I reduce the demand on teh server that this email
> uses? (It's just a CFMAIL app sending a plain text email to addresses
> pulled from our SQLServer7 database).
>
> If it's OK to have the server at 100%, what else might be causing this
> kind of problem that I'm getting blamed for?
>
> Cheers,
> Mike Kear
> AFP Webworks,
> Windsor, NSW, Australia
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