Hi Andrew, some suggestions:
1. find out what exactly is running on that machine and on the instance (i.e. if there are other instances, if there's a DB server running on the box etc) 2. JMeter is a helpful tool, but it'd be a good idea to have a look at what your CF server is actually doing. I can recommend FusionReactor for that. If you just start load testing the development environment, it's a bit load testing into the unknown. Cheers Kai On 25/01/2010, at 4:20 PM, Andrew wrote: > Hi Folks, > > My hosting company has just informed me that the CF7 instance for a > site I maintain is using about 65% CPU at the moment (on a Solaris > machine). The site uses quite a few frameworks - ModelGlue, > ColdSpring, Transfer and Javaloader. > > We have recently attempted to move this to CF8 but aborted the attempt > because it basically just ground the server to a halt. So I think > there is something more sinister going on here that I need to sort out > before we attempt that again. > > However I'm a bit stuck with where to go from here. The site has been > going along quite nicely until recently. Traffic has grown quite a > lot in the last 1-2 years which I'm sure is not unrelated. Just to > throw a few extra spanners into the works I *believe* this is a shared > server but I have no information on what else is running on it and > whether that could possibly be causing us problems. > > I know this is very very vague but I don't get a lot of info from our > hosting provider except that we are using up too many resources. > Perhaps we have just outgrown our current hardware, but I am not sure > how to confirm this. Any suggestions on what I could start looking at > to track down the source of the issues would be hugely appreciated. > > Andrew. > > P.S. I do have a development server which is identical except that it > only has 2GB RAM as opposed to the 4GB in production. Load testing on > this is definitely an option - I have used JMeter in the past but not > sure I have used it optimally. Anyone got any suggestions on load/ > stress testing tools? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "cfaussie" group. > To post to this group, send email to cfaus...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en. > _________________________________________________ Kai Koenig - Ventego Creative Ltd ph: +64 4 476 6781 - mob: +64 21 928 365 / +61 450 132 117 web: http://www.ventego-creative.co.nz blog: http://www.bloginblack.de twitter: http://www.twitter.com/agentK -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaus...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
