Stability problem with CF7

> 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

i must be making it up then.

> 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

> 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

I tried to update with the Cold Fusion 70-updater2, It looks like it is extracting but it is not installing the update ......

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

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 ?

> 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.

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Adam