Email Raymond Camden, I think he tried this on his DeathClock site (wihch
gets some obsene amount of hits per hour) and found that unlocked reads
totaly killed the server...
-Cameron
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Cameron Childress
elliptIQ Inc.
p.770.460.7277.232
f.770.460.0963
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nat Papovich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 1:32 PM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: the $5 bet - crash a server with unlocked application scope
> READs
>
>
> The subject pretty much says it all, but I'd like to see someone crash a
> server or produce a pcode exception error or (getting easy here)
> produce one
> of those "donteverusethisvariablenameinyourcfmlcode123456789" errors by
> using concurrent unlocked application scoped variable reads.
>
> I've already built a frameset with 50 frames, each frame page looping over
> the output of an application variable 100,000 times. Now out of those 5
> million read hits to my application variable that occur within
> the space of
> maybe 10 seconds, NONE produce any error whatsoever, no matter how many
> times I try. Of course, doing 5 million WRITE hits will produce errors
> pretty quickly, and eventually destroy my server. Anybody have
> Silk or Load
> Runner?
>
> I'm not interested in session variable locking issues, nor with cfquery's
> cachedwithin attribute. I only want to see application variable reads
> causing detrimental effects to a CF server.
>
> $5 to be delivered at the next major CF conference, should I be able to
> reproduce the error on my machine (single proc p3-650, 256 mb
> ram, CF 5 Beta
> 3, PWS, NT 4 Workstation SP6). The cash only goes to the first person...
>
> Good luck - I don't think it's possible!
>
> NAT
> Nat Papovich
> Webthugs Consulting
> ICQ 32676414
> "If it was hard to write,"
> says the Real Programmer,
> "it should be hard to understand."
>
>
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