bek,
Your message is confusing. I am trying to figure out if you are actually
asking for help with a problem or just on a frustrated rant. It almost
appears that you are replying to some other message, but I don't see one
quoted in your message...
Your subject line states that you are having a problem with 100% CPU
utilization... If that is your problem, you might want to check your
cfusion/mail/spool dirctory for a zero legth file. If one's in there,
that's what's killing your server.
In the body of your message you suggest that you believe there is a "memory
leak" in the Netscape DLLs. Although in my experience, this DOES NOT cause
100% CPU usage, there is a small bug in the way CF handles the external dll
calls for CFMAIL messages which use an invalid domain name for the SMTP mail
server. This ONLY happens when an invalid domain is entered for the SMTP
server, and the result is not actually a memory leak, but a "handle leak"
and should not cause RAM to be consumed in mass quantities. This bug
manifests itself particularly bad if you are using
CF_ResendUndeliverableMail to copy a few hundred failed messages back into
the spool every 15 minutes.
AFAIK, both of these bugs have been fixed for CF5, and careful usage of
CFMAIL should virtually eliminate the problems listed above.
Your message also mentions a few other random problems you are having such
as the "Donteverusethisvariablecfmlerrorblahblahblah" problem. If you need
help with those problems, you might want to give a little more
information...
So, are you in fact asking for help? If so, did my message help you out at
all? If not, posting more specific information about your problem may be in
order.
-Cameron
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Cameron Childress
elliptIQ Inc.
p.770.460.7277.232
f.770.460.0963
> -----Original Message-----
> From: b kiefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 7:41 AM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: 100% CPU Utilization
>
>
> There is a similar thread what you describe and it appears that Macromedia
> is aware that one of the Netscape Messenger DLLs that they use to
> facilitate mail (smtp, port 25 stuff) has a memory leak. There is an
> unofficial dll replacement posted in the thread. We applied it yesterday
> and have gone from thinking we needed to go to 1 GB of RAM and a 2nd
> Processor to wondering if we really need the 512 MB for our web server.
>
> However, not all is well. On the original cf4.5, we would get a whole
> bunch of very new server errors. Including a mysterious,
> Donteverusethisvariablecfmlerrorblahblahblah (or something very similar).
> This would always require us to restart the CF process. It seemed to go
> away in SP2; but after the dll replacement, 2 hours later I had this error
> crop up. I'm aware this is all speculation, but I don't ever find useful
> things in the log files to track this issue down.
>
> Finally, to those that restart their server, you may want to hop on over
> to www.sysinternals.com and download the ps utilities for NT. With these,
> you can get a cmd prompt on the box, list the processes and kill them. I
> have found that using these tools is 100% successful for processes that
> are out of control, where as the contol panel and mmc and services and
> <insert favorite ms widget> here are not. So we don't reboot our box
> unless something is _very_ wrong.
>
> bek
>
>
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