Are you invoking the email generation script via a browser? If so then you should try it either via a schedule or by calling the script directly using the CFML stub, this will prevent DLLHOST.exe from sitting there taking up cycles. It's most likely this which is slowing the HTTPD response.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Sandeep Shetty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 26 June 2003 14:28 > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Mailing Lists question > > > yes i agree with this, but all our websites become very slow > during that > time so we are concerned....and since we have a dual processor and > sufficient memory we feel that the processor usage becomming > 100% on sending > out 7000 emails means there must be something wrong either > memory leak or > there must be a better way of sending out these many > emails...trying to find > out... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 26 June 2003 14:23 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Mailing Lists question > > > 100% processor utilisation shouldn't be regarded as being a > problem. If I > were running a task and my server was only using 10% (for example) of > available processor resources then I'd be a little miffed. It's like > employing someone and finding that they're basically really lazy! > DLLHOST.exe is an IIS thread and will naturally be utilised > as CF will have > an open pipe to it for the duration of the generation of the emails. > > On the email front, as Duncan says, you can pass the query parameter > directly to the CFMAIL tag, but you'll still find that your > processor usage > goes up and that dllhost.exe uses up cycles. > > Steve > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Sandeep Shetty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 26 June 2003 13:49 > > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > Subject: [ cf-dev ] Mailing Lists question > > > > > > Hi, > > I have a question on large number of emails using cfmail. We > > are sending > > out HTML emails to around 7000 registered users. We are > > currently looping > > through cfmail tag using cfloop the required number of times > > and send out > > emails using our IMail server. > > Is there a better way of sending out this many emails? > > I have noticed that whenever this many emails are sent out > the server > > processor usage reaches nearly 100%! and have seen that a > > process called > > dllhost.exe uses up nearly 60percent of the processor and > > uses large amounts > > of memory. > > Can sending out 7000 emails from coldfusion using a cfloop > cause this > > problem. We use cf5. Our server has 1gig ram and good hard > disk space. > > Any advice, suggestions or links would be most welcome > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Sandeep > > > > -- > > ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
