Just curious, are any of my messages arriving?? > Barry Beattie wrote: > > hi all > > > > we have some large singleton cfc's in server memory. the first user that > > hits the app after a cold start-up or a restart usually cops these singletons being wound up. > > > > any suggestions on how to get an "onServerStart" type of event to trigger the wind up? Unfortunatly, onApplicationStart in Application.cfc is still tied to the request so the first page hit still does all the hard work. > > We have seen this sort problem as well, one example was a big Govt > Intranet, the other a _very_ busy site and both running CF5 and were > loading a mass of stuff into the application scope to make the sites run > faster/better. > > What we did which seemed to work well was use an application scope > variable to say that everything was loaded up properly and then used > that variable to switch between the site proper and a "hang on a minute" > page. Then if you hit the page first up from a restart you got the "hang > on a minute" page and in the background everything started loading. We > put a 1 second meta-refresh on the "hang on a minute" page so even the > person that first hit the site hardly noticed anyway :-) You need a > bunch of locks and things like pause tags to make sure it all works > properly but it wasn't hard to implement and has been very reliably. > > I recollect another site that had a "walker" that wandered the site > regenerating all of the "dynamic" menus to static files after a site > structure change, that technique was quite effective as well. IIRC the > site restart trigger set off a once-only scheduler that ran the walker > that self-refreshed al-la the Spectra install scripts if anyone > remembers that :-) > > In-house as a hosting company we use the server scope to flag the > restart/rebuild of a bunch of things after a server start, could be > useful in this context........ > > HTH > > Kym K > > --- > You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-cfaussie- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
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