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cf_code_warrior
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July 20, 2009
Question

CF slows down to a halt ... images not displaying

  • July 20, 2009
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My primary laptop on which I do all coding ...

- less than 1 year old

- Dell (cough) XPS M1730

- Windows XP (latest)

- ColdFusion Ver 8, developer edition.

- No other issues with laptop

Also running

- SQL 2000

- Synergy

- Anti virus etc. changed Norton daily scan and unaware that I have picked up any viruses - I was my hands very well and often

Over 6 months gradually CF has been slowly not display internal referenced <img src> tags.  External work fine.

To the point now where most in our app do not display.

Then in the past 3-4 days a lot of pages when called give Firefox or IE errors:

Page will not display with too may users error.

But there aren't any others.

I go to all other web site, no issues with speed.

I just cold warm booted the machine and now while page 1 appears, page 2, login, takes minutes to appear.  But on a beta server (also developer edition) it's instant.

When I go straight into the browser, it works fine, albeit no images, crashes with a known bug (missing application variable), fix it, then resume, then just sits there forever.

And there's no difference between the two machines ... well, not in "that" way.

Adding to my confusion is ... I cannot get into the CF Admin panel.

I can see it approve me, then it just spins.

Nothing has changed on machine in past weeks EXCEPT traveling when I sign in to the usual plethora of wifi and other networks but never had a problem - except luggability

I am thinking of, UGH, reinstalling Windows ... but why bother if it's working perfectly and only ColdFusion has an issue.

Now COLD booted machine for 5 minutes.

Everything seems better except CF still a BIT sluggish and still not "drawing" most images.  Able to access Admin panel.  Even if there images not displaying.

Anyone any ideas?

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    ilssac
    ilssac
    Inspiring
    July 20, 2009

    Search the ColdFusion directories for any that contain more files then you might expect.

    We had a similar issue with a CF8 server serveral months ago.  One day, just exploring the CF install directories, I stumbled on one that and thousands and thousands of files in it.  Windows couldn't even tell me how many there where, it would crash trying to count the files in that directory.  I deleted all these files and it litterally took a few hours to do so.  Afterwords ColdFusion's performance returned.

    This seemed to be some directory used for temporary storage of files created on the fly, but during some development processes they where not getting properly cleaned up aftewords.  If I recall correctly, these where files related to on-the-fly generated PDF files with <cfreport...> tags, which we where experiementing with heavily at the time.

    HTH

    Ian

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    cf_code_warriorAuthor
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    July 20, 2009

    Thanks for your prompt reply ...

    We scoured for a folder like that and found none.

    What we DID find is that over the years of coding, we have a template count of 3,500 files in 130 folders, but the root where we start is about 1,500 files.   144 megs total size though.

    That shouldn't be too much?  Esp as our beta and production servers are using the same amount with no issues.

    Admittedly production is CF 7.X.

    Much more powerful machines but still.

    It would have made sense as that is the only thing on the machine that has "grown" ... but no luck.

    Does remind me of the day when our mail server got hacked and we had 100,000 outbound in the spool.  That was fun.: :)

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