On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Rick Osborne [Mojo] wrote: > 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. :)
Now that sounds like the perfect good fix. How easy was it to code and did you use any custom tags? I'm wondering if it's something that's within my coding capabilities. - Bryant > 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm 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
