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February 19, 2007
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Stability problem with CF7

  • February 19, 2007
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Hi,

We have upgrade from CF 5 to CF MX7, since then our server is unstable the CF service seems to be crashing every day or every 2 days. Is there a fix to this?
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    Inspiring
    February 21, 2007
    > i must be making it up then.

    That was my first thought.

    ;-)

    Seriously, people are often wont to blame something else for their own
    shortcomings. I don't doubt that your site was stable under CFMX61 and now
    isn't stable under CFMX7x. In a big application (which yours no doubt is),
    there's a lot of scope to encounter *something* that in CFMX61 zigs, but in
    CFMX7x zags, and that could be causing problems for you; but it's not
    inherent instability in CFMX7, it's just "whatever code you're using
    doesn't work quite the same". Your code could have been inadvertently
    leveraging some sort of CFMX61 bug which was fixed in CFMX7, or something
    like that. An obvious example of this sort of thing happening is when CFCs
    were finally made to work properly in CFMX61, and suddenly a lot of code
    written in CFMX60 stopped working as expected (whilst not actually
    *erroring*). Or when CFMX7 "fixed" the way CFMX61 duplicated objects:
    instead of converting it to a struct, it just threw an error.

    Obviously what you're experiencing isn't as obvious as "that behaviour now
    throws an error", it's more insidious. But I'm "sure" that it's a problem
    with your code, not a problem with CFMX7, intrinsically.

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    Adam
    February 21, 2007
    i must be making it up then.
    Inspiring
    February 19, 2007
    > I just upgraded from cf6.1 to cf 7 and it was a nightmare, i had to roll back
    > after a week of fire-fighting. I believe that cf7 is in fact worse than cf6
    > (and 5) cos my (very high traffic) app is stable on 6.1 and a bag of crap on 7
    > (with the same settings, jvm etc).
    >
    > stick with 5 or try 6.1 ?

    If there was a clamouring from lots of other people saying the same thing,
    I'd be inclined to think there's some substance to that notion.

    But as there isn't...
    ... I don't.

    ;-)

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    Adam
    Inspiring
    February 19, 2007
    > I tried to update with the Cold Fusion 70-updater2, It looks like it is extracting but it is not installing the update ......

    Try D/Ling it again. I've had problems - like you're describing - where
    sometimes the D/L file is corrupted, for some reason.

    I've not experienced the same issues that MW2 has, but our big sites
    (probably not *nearly* so big and impressive as his, but there you go) are
    still on 6.1

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    Adam
    Known Participant
    February 19, 2007
    I tried to update with the Cold Fusion 70-updater2, It looks like it is extracting but it is not installing the update ......
    Known Participant
    February 19, 2007
    Here it is

    System Information
    Server Details
    Server Product ColdFusion MX
    Version 7,0,1,116466
    Edition Standard
    Serial Number XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    Operating System Windows 2000
    OS Version 5.0
    JVM Details
    Java Version 1.4.2_05
    Java Vendor Sun Microsystems Inc.
    Java Vendor URL http://java.sun.com/
    Java Home C:\CFusionMX7\runtime\jre
    Java File Encoding Cp1252
    Java Default Locale en_US
    File Separator \
    Path Separator ;
    Line Separator Chr(13)
    User Name SYSTEM
    User Home C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator
    User Dir C:\CFusionMX7\runtime\bin
    Java VM Specification Version 1.0
    Java VM Specification Vendor Sun Microsystems Inc.
    Java VM Specification Name Java Virtual Machine Specification
    Java VM Version 1.4.2_05-b04
    Java VM Vendor Sun Microsystems Inc.
    Java VM Name Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM
    Java Specification Version 1.4
    Java Specification Vendor Sun Microsystems Inc.
    Java Specification Name Java Platform API Specification
    Java Class Version 48.0
    February 19, 2007
    I just upgraded from cf6.1 to cf 7 and it was a nightmare, i had to roll back after a week of fire-fighting. I believe that cf7 is in fact worse than cf6 (and 5) cos my (very high traffic) app is stable on 6.1 and a bag of crap on 7 (with the same settings, jvm etc).

    stick with 5 or try 6.1 ?
    Inspiring
    February 19, 2007
    > We have upgrade from CF 5 to CF MX7, since then our server is unstable the CF service seems to be crashing every day or every 2 days. Is there a fix to this?

    What do the logs say?

    What OS / version / etc are you using? Which flavour of CF
    (pro/enterprise, stand-alone/J2ee)? Which patch level of CFMX7?

    CFMX7 runs fine, so there's something amiss with your setup, if it's
    crashing like that.

    --
    Adam