Tom muck said: > Unfortunately, ColdFusion doesn't give us the option to split the > spool directory into mulitple directories, so the server will > automatically write all the spool files out to that directory up to > 65,535 files before crapping out. Then it only sifts through them at > the rate of 400 per minute.
We had a similar problem and got around it by making our code smart enough to only spool mail if there is less than 200 files in the spool directory. Otherwise, it waits a minute and tries again. Sure, you may not be getting optimal efficiency out of your mail spool, but you're also not crashing the server. :) One caveat, tho. There is a known bug in CF4.x (fixed in CF5) that will occasionally create a zero-byte file in the mail spool. Upon trying to read this file, your cf server will go down *hard*. If you bring up the server again without deleting the file, it will just crash again. I talked to Allaire support about it last week at DevCon and they admitted that they hadn't been able to even figure out what was causing it, much less provide a permanent fix for it. They've worked around it in CF5 by doing a size test against each file before it is read, but they are *not* planning on retro-ing the fix back to 4.x. Their advice was to write a daemon in something other than CF that periodically checked the spool file for zero-byte files and deleted them. Also check to see if your CF server has already crashed and restart it. That's a bit out of the range of the majority of their customers, but that was their solution. -R Rick Osborne Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
