RE: SQL Server Performance

2010-07-29 Thread UXB Internet
>> hardware improvement options and need to quantify >> (as much as possible) performance increases In my limited experience with MSSQL the best investment is improved Hard drive speed and/or throughput and increased memory. They are usually the bottlenecks. Dennis Powers UXB Internet - A Webs

Re: SOT: SQL Server Performance

2010-07-29 Thread Judah McAuley
As an adjunct to the advice you've already received (which is excellent I might add), I always recommend looking at the business use cases for reporting. Are these reports ad hoc reports or are they known reports that you can schedule ahead of time, execute during off hours, then save the results

Re: SOT: SQL Server Performance

2010-07-29 Thread Andrew Clarke
Mike had a lot of good comments. How dynamic is your data? Is it constantly being updated? If so, do you need real-time query results? You need to balance the creation of indexes (as many as possible on a relatively static server) with the fact that indexes can slow down insert/update/delet

Re: SOT: SQL Server Performance

2010-07-29 Thread Mike Chabot
The Database Engine Tuning Advisor only gets you so far and some of the recommendations it generates are bad recommendations. For example, it might suggest redundant overlapping indexes. It currently takes a human to properly set up indexes. Your best bet is to find the bottleneck and try to quan

SOT: SQL Server Performance

2010-07-29 Thread John M Bliss
Hi. I have a SQL Server running on: DELL PowerEdge 2950 4 GB Memory 1 Processors with 4 Cores Windows 2003 Standard - 32 bit ...and one 20 GB database. Normally, everything runs very quickly. In certain edge-cases such as: user requests 14 month report resulting in query joining 400,000 rows

RE: Server Performance

2009-12-18 Thread Mark Kruger
No prob. Mark A. Kruger, CFG, MCSE (402) 408-3733 ext 105 www.cfwebtools.com www.coldfusionmuse.com www.necfug.com -Original Message- From: webmas...@pegweb.com [mailto:webmas...@pegweb.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 11:22 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Server Performance Thanks

RE: Server Performance

2009-12-18 Thread webmaster
Thanks. I will look over these. -Original Message- From: DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT) [mailto:sd1...@att.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 9:01 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Server Performance CFMeetup just had a meeting on "Homebrewed ColdFusion Monitoring" by Wil Gen

RE: Server Performance

2009-12-18 Thread webmaster
er 18, 2009 8:46 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Server Performance 2 things for you. First, check the DB for blocks and locks - about 9 times out of ten queuing requests are due to DB requests that are hanging. For some reason we web developers bang our head against CF over and over thinking the

RE: Server Performance

2009-12-18 Thread DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT)
lk Subject: RE: Server Performance 2 things for you. First, check the DB for blocks and locks - about 9 times out of ten queuing requests are due to DB requests that are hanging. For some reason we web developers bang our head against CF over and over thinking there is something we can do on the web

RE: Server Performance

2009-12-18 Thread Mark Kruger
ow busy is it - in real time, it's handy and easy. -Mark Mark A. Kruger, CFG, MCSE (402) 408-3733 ext 105 www.cfwebtools.com www.coldfusionmuse.com www.necfug.com -Original Message- From: webmas...@pegweb.com [mailto:webmas...@pegweb.com] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 6:

Re: Server Performance

2009-12-18 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 18 Dec 2009, webmas...@pegweb.com wrote: > Is there a way through command line or a 3rd party application to see > what web sites on a CF Pro 8 server are causing the most requests? Your web server logs would seem the obvious bet... -- Helping to enthusiastically aggregate unique tot

RE: Server Performance

2009-12-17 Thread brad
Another good choice for a little less dough is SeeFusion which has some very handy database logging. http://www.seefusion.com/ ~Brad Original Message Subject: Re: Server Performance From: Andrew Scott Date: Thu, December 17, 2009 6:52 pm To: cf-talk As you are not running

Re: Server Performance

2009-12-17 Thread Andrew Scott
As you are not running ColdFusion Enterprise your best bet would be http://www.fusion-reactor.com/ On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:20 AM, wrote: > > Is there a way through command line or a 3rd party application to see > what web sites on a CF Pro 8 server are causing the most requests? On > one p

Server Performance

2009-12-17 Thread webmaster
Is there a way through command line or a 3rd party application to see what web sites on a CF Pro 8 server are causing the most requests? On one particular server it is starting to show behavior of page timeouts and longer running requests. In the Performance Monitor in windows I see the running re

Re: Server performance problem since upgrading to CF8

2007-12-14 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 14 Dec 2007, Dan G. Switzer, II wrote: > Do you have any of CF8's Server Monitoring enabled? It's known to cause > performance issues and should only be used to debug problems; You can (I'd argue should) have the first level of monitoring enabled. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to elementar

RE: Server performance problem since upgrading to CF8

2007-12-14 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>>Every since upgrading to CF8 I've been having a frustrating problem. >After >>starting CF, it will run for a while (sometimes serveral hours, sometimes >>less than an hour) at about 1% - 3% in terms of processor load. (It's a 2 >>cpu - 4 core system.) Then, all of a sudden, the processor load w

RE: Server performance problem since upgrading to CF8

2007-12-14 Thread Will Swain
--Original Message- From: Bob Hendren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 December 2007 11:31 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Server performance problem since upgrading to CF8 >Every since upgrading to CF8 I've been having a frustrating problem. >After starting CF, it will run for a while (som

Re: Server performance problem since upgrading to CF8

2007-12-14 Thread Bob Hendren
>Every since upgrading to CF8 I've been having a frustrating problem. After >starting CF, it will run for a while (sometimes serveral hours, sometimes >less than an hour) at about 1% - 3% in terms of processor load. (It's a 2 >cpu - 4 core system.) Then, all of a sudden, the processor load will

Re: Server performance problem since upgrading to CF8

2007-10-30 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Kevin Pompei wrote: > Well I've isolated the problem down. It happens 1 hour and 7 minutes after > restart which it time that is set for the client stores to be purged. This > must be a bug in CF because once it starts the one CPU core is at 100% and > stays there even for days until the server i

Re: Server performance problem since upgrading to CF8

2007-10-30 Thread Kevin Pompei
m > the JVM.config file - and the general config of the server? > > -Mark > > -Original Message- > From: Kevin Pompei [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 9:53 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Server performance problem since upgrading to CF

RE: Server performance problem since upgrading to CF8

2007-10-30 Thread Mark A Kruger
-Original Message- From: Kevin Pompei [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 9:53 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Server performance problem since upgrading to CF8 You're correct. One core is at 100%. On 10/29/07, James Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On a fo

Re: Server performance problem since upgrading to CF8

2007-10-30 Thread Kevin Pompei
Thanks Dave. I'll try this. On 10/29/07, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyone seen this, or have any ideas. BTW, I'm running the > > standard edition of CF so I don't have access to the server monitor. > > I suggest you invest in one of the other monitoring tools available - > SeeF

Re: Server performance problem since upgrading to CF8

2007-10-30 Thread Kevin Pompei
You're correct. One core is at 100%. On 10/29/07, James Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On a four core system, a CPU pegged at 25% means one core is at 100%; > CF has probably filled the JVM memory and is permanently garbage > collecting. > > I agree with Dave - get FusionReactor and set a

Re: Server performance problem since upgrading to CF8

2007-10-29 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Kevin Pompei wrote: > Every since upgrading to CF8 I've been having a frustrating problem. After > starting CF, it will run for a while (sometimes serveral hours, sometimes > less than an hour) at about 1% - 3% in terms of processor load. (It's a 2 > cpu - 4 core system.) Then, all of a sudden,

Re: Server performance problem since upgrading to CF8

2007-10-29 Thread Brian Kotek
You could also install the Dev version locally at and try running the code with the server monitor turned on. On 10/29/07, Kevin Pompei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Every since upgrading to CF8 I've been having a frustrating > problem. After > starting CF, it will run for a while (sometimes ser

Re: Server performance problem since upgrading to CF8

2007-10-29 Thread Mark Mandel
Kevin, What codebase are you running on it? Mark On 10/30/07, Kevin Pompei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Every since upgrading to CF8 I've been having a frustrating problem. After > starting CF, it will run for a while (sometimes serveral hours, sometimes > less than an hour) at about 1% - 3% in

Re: Server performance problem since upgrading to CF8

2007-10-29 Thread James Holmes
On a four core system, a CPU pegged at 25% means one core is at 100%; CF has probably filled the JVM memory and is permanently garbage collecting. I agree with Dave - get FusionReactor and set a memory alert threshold in the crash prevention options. On 10/30/07, Kevin Pompei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: Server performance problem since upgrading to CF8

2007-10-29 Thread Dave Watts
> Anyone seen this, or have any ideas. BTW, I'm running the > standard edition of CF so I don't have access to the server monitor. I suggest you invest in one of the other monitoring tools available - SeeFusion or FusionReactor. You will likely find the problem a lot faster, and it'll pay for it

Server performance problem since upgrading to CF8

2007-10-29 Thread Kevin Pompei
Every since upgrading to CF8 I've been having a frustrating problem. After starting CF, it will run for a while (sometimes serveral hours, sometimes less than an hour) at about 1% - 3% in terms of processor load. (It's a 2 cpu - 4 core system.) Then, all of a sudden, the processor load will jump

RE: Server performance

2006-11-06 Thread Russ
Grab a copy of seefusion or fusionreactor and watch the server especially when it's timing out. You might see what's going on . Russ > -Original Message- > From: Matthew Chambers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 11:47 PM > To: CF-

Server performance

2006-11-05 Thread Matthew Chambers
Hi guys, I am getting random errors from CF along the lines of "The request has exceeded the allowable time limit Tag: cfmail "... the error varies from CFMAIL, CFOUTPUT and CFQUERY tags and different pages. The queries are fine, because they work most of the time and I've run them through a DB

Re: Image upload impacting web server performance

2006-10-26 Thread Massimo Foti
> // Declare a new image to obtain math values > x=new Image; > x.src=element.value; > is=Math.ceil(x.fileSize/1000); > > This is a snippet of an old piece of javascript that I used for previewing > and uploading multiple image files. I'm not 100% that I got the file size > preview to work but I th

Re: Image upload impacting web server performance

2006-10-25 Thread Richard Cooper
I think you can do this with javascript? // Declare a new image to obtain math values x=new Image; x.src=element.value; is=Math.ceil(x.fileSize/1000); This is a snippet of an old piece of javascript that I used for previewing and u

RE: Image upload impacting web server performance

2006-10-24 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>Not I a m aware of. Bowsers are too picky about security. >Javascript has no access to any information about the file selected for >upload. >The size of the file should be available in an onSubmit event, at least. You can move to a 3rd party plug-in for Image uploading (Java/ActiveX/Flash.) Using

RE: Image upload impacting web server performance

2006-10-24 Thread Russ
ED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:52 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Image upload impacting web server performance > > Absolutely. Large file uploads has a measurable impact on the server's > CPU usage and memory usage as the file chunks are uploaded and them > copi

RE: Image upload impacting web server performance

2006-10-24 Thread Steve Brownlee
y, October 24, 2006 12:28 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Image upload impacting web server performance I have a community site where members can upload photos of themselves. I'm having problems with the ColdFusion server and think the problem may be associated with people uploading large image files.

Re: Image upload impacting web server performance

2006-10-24 Thread Claude Schneegans
Is is possible? It is quite possible, the way CF and HTTP servers handle files. Also some people are still sending files in BMP format. >> Is there something I can do about it? Not I a m aware of. Bowsers are too picky about security. Javascript has no access to any information about the file s

Image upload impacting web server performance

2006-10-24 Thread MJ Frauenaheim
I have a community site where members can upload photos of themselves. I'm having problems with the ColdFusion server and think the problem may be associated with people uploading large image files. The server cpu and memory races and freezes the server for a short while. Is is possible? Is the

Re: Did my own CF/SQL Server performance testing, my world is tur ned upside down.

2006-05-21 Thread Barney Boisvert
It's worth mentioning that there is some overhead for calling a stored proc that isn't involved with straight queries, though it should be minimal. Where stored procs REALLY shine is when you've got a query whose result is only used for some logic driving another query. Using a stored proc in tha

RE: Did my own CF/SQL Server performance testing, my world is tur ned upside down.

2006-05-21 Thread Dave Watts
> Well, OK, not that dramatic, but every DBA I have ever known > has told me that if you want performance, you use stored > procedures. My quick test this evening has me rethinking that. Just a warning - quick tests are often worth about the time you put into them. > The straight query using CF

Re: Did my own CF/SQL Server performance testing, my world is turned upside down.

2006-05-20 Thread Phillip Beazley
On 5/20/06, Pete Ruckelshaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone else found this to be the case? I'm really thinking about > ripping out all of my SP's and just using queries, it would make my > life easier on a number of levels. I have all of my queries as > methods in a CFC, so code re

Re: Did my own CF/SQL Server performance testing, my world is turned upside down.

2006-05-20 Thread Tony
here's what i have found... i agree. when it comes to small queries like that with NOT MUCH LOGIC involved. When it comes to a larger Stored Proc with LOTS of gobbledeegoop, i think it changes then. but yeah, for the most part, i refactored most if not all of my smaller queries into straight sq

Did my own CF/SQL Server performance testing, my world is turned upside down.

2006-05-20 Thread Pete Ruckelshaus
Well, OK, not that dramatic, but every DBA I have ever known has told me that if you want performance, you use stored procedures. My quick test this evening has me rethinking that. Using essentially the same query (basically a login query against a single table, pass in username and password, ret

Re: CF Server performance

2006-02-22 Thread Patrick Quinn
Hey Ken. I'm naturally a biased responder here, but there was some public discussion on Ben Forta's blog about comparisons: http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/1/19/Check-Out-SeeFusion Also, I'd be happy to talk offline about the products if you like, where my bias can be unleashed. ;) To

CF Server performance

2006-02-22 Thread Ken
Hey guys. Does anyone know a good comparison between these 2 coldfusion server monitoring tools? I am talking about seefusion Vs. fusion reactor. My basic purpose is to optimize client requests and avoid frequent coldfusion failures caused by faulty code, or heavy sql queries etc. Please see if you

OT: Server performance article

2004-10-11 Thread Damien McKenna
Here's a really good article for those of you debating server upgrades: http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9408/sam0411b/0411b.htm -- *Damien McKenna* - Web Developer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Limu Company - http://www.thelimucompany.com/ - 407-804-1014 "Nothing endures but change." - Heraclitus [T

Re: Server performance

2004-10-06 Thread Nathan Strutz
2-300 users, 500k cf hits/day is not all that much (it's a good amount, but it's not at all abusive). Also, it depends on how you measure concurrency. Some people do it by # of cf sessions, some by DB last activity time, and others by whatever their log stats says. Others would argue that you can't

Re: Server performance

2004-10-06 Thread jschley
Not sure if the product support team has a technote published on this yet or not, but check out this Microsoft KB article regarding IIS6 performance. This issue does affect ColdFusion MX 6.1 running on IIS6. Fortunately, it's a pretty simple tweak and ultimately it's going to be fixed by Microsoft

Re: Server performance

2004-10-06 Thread JB McMichael
On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 02:32:21 +0200, Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > JB McMichael wrote: > > I am currently running CFMX 6.1 Standard Edition with the updater > > installed on a Win2k3 server, with IIS, connecting to a SQL Server > > 2000 db that is on another computer.  The web serve

Re: Server performance

2004-10-05 Thread Paul Giesenhagen
riginal Message -   From: Jochem van Dieten   To: CF-Talk   Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 7:32 PM   Subject: Re: Server performance   JB McMichael wrote:   > I am currently running CFMX 6.1 Standard Edition with the updater   > installed on a Win2k3 server, with IIS, connecting to a S

Re: Server performance

2004-10-05 Thread Jochem van Dieten
JB McMichael wrote: > I am currently running CFMX 6.1 Standard Edition with the updater > installed on a Win2k3 server, with IIS, connecting to a SQL Server > 2000 db that is on another computer.  The web server itself is a > pretty beefy machine, and it is running one website that is fairly > comp

Server performance

2004-10-05 Thread JB McMichael
I am currently running CFMX 6.1 Standard Edition with the updater installed on a Win2k3 server, with IIS, connecting to a SQL Server 2000 db that is on another computer.  The web server itself is a pretty beefy machine, and it is running one website that is fairly complex.  The site usually has 200

Monitoring SQL server and general server performance

2004-01-23 Thread Robert Bailey
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RE: Server Performance

2002-10-28 Thread A.Little
t; From: Shahzad.Butt [mailto:Shahzad.Butt@;JJFastFood.com] > Sent: 28 October 2002 13:27 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Server Performance > > > Hi > > Some application/request is killing my server (running intranet). And > almost everyweek my server stops working (for intranet) a

Re: Server Performance

2002-10-28 Thread Stephen Moretti
AIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 1:27 PM Subject: Server Performance > Hi > > Some application/request is killing my server (running intranet). And > almost everyweek my server stops working (for intranet) and when

Server Performance

2002-10-28 Thread Shahzad.Butt
Hi Some application/request is killing my server (running intranet). And almost everyweek my server stops working (for intranet) and when I check the server there is message "OUT OF VIRTUAL MEMORY". I want to log all applications which are taking longer than 2 minutes (to find the culprite one).

RE: SQL Server performance

2000-12-01 Thread Hayes, David
ailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 9:24 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: SQL Server performance I know this issue has probably been talked about in the past, but I'm new to the list... I'm certainly NOT new to CF, been doing it for quite some time (over 5 years), but haven

SQL Server performance

2000-12-01 Thread Joe Sheble aka Wizaerd
I know this issue has probably been talked about in the past, but I'm new to the list... I'm certainly NOT new to CF, been doing it for quite some time (over 5 years), but haven't played much with administration, just coding. I have a small performance issue that has only recently begun to be bot

RE: SQL Server performance with CF

2000-09-25 Thread dougn
er 25, 2000 9:19 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: SQL Server performance with CF -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are there ways to optimize the connection between a CF server and an SQL Server machine? We've just plugged them both into the network (they are side by side in the same se

RE: SQL Server performance with CF

2000-09-25 Thread Sean Brown
Message- From: Chris Lott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 12:19 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: SQL Server performance with CF -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are there ways to optimize the connection between a CF server and an SQL Server machine? We've

SQL Server performance with CF

2000-09-25 Thread Chris Lott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are there ways to optimize the connection between a CF server and an SQL Server machine? We've just plugged them both into the network (they are side by side in the same server rooom) and ran, but I wondered if there were ways to optimize the travel o