[cfaussie] CF7 (and 8) High CPU usage on production box

2010-01-24 Thread Andrew
Hi Folks, My hosting company has just informed me that the CF7 instance for a site I maintain is using about 65% CPU at the moment (on a Solaris machine). The site uses quite a few frameworks - ModelGlue, ColdSpring, Transfer and Javaloader. We have recently attempted to move this to CF8 but

Re: [cfaussie] CF7 (and 8) High CPU usage on production box

2010-01-24 Thread Kai Koenig
Hi Andrew, some suggestions: 1. find out what exactly is running on that machine and on the instance (i.e. if there are other instances, if there's a DB server running on the box etc) 2. JMeter is a helpful tool, but it'd be a good idea to have a look at what your CF server is actually doing.

Re: [cfaussie] CF7 (and 8) High CPU usage on production box

2010-01-24 Thread Andrew Myers
Hi Kai, Thanks for your suggestions. Regarding FusionReactor - we actually purchased a licence for this last year, however it seemed to have such a negative performance impact on the server to the point where we had to switch it off because we were having to restart the CF service a few times a

Re: [cfaussie] CF7 (and 8) High CPU usage on production box

2010-01-24 Thread Kai Koenig
Hi Andrew, I dare to say that _if_ installing FR on your server and using it to monitor your system makes CF crash all the time then the issue is most likely _not_ FR but some underlying problem with your overall infrastructure - somewhere in the stack from Solaris via Java via CF up to Apache.