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June 15, 2011
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Website having Intermittent Connectivity Issues and Sluggish Performance

  • June 15, 2011
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The Epilogue.  My request for help is at the break.

Hello.  Since yesterday, I've been trying to buy a single-incident support contract from Adobe.  However, I've been unsuccessful.  Unless I'm not seeing something correctly on the website, it seem you can't buy CF support online.

First, I called yesterday.  I waited for an extremely long period of time only to be told I'm in the wrong department.  Then I was transferred to sales, who then told me I need to speak with Enterprise support.  I called Enterprise support and was told I needed a support contract.  Fine.  I asked if I could get it, they then transferred me back to the general support line.  Dead end.

Then I call again today.  The wait wasn't as long.  Again, I was bounced around from department to department.  Apparently saying "I need to purchase a support contract for Cold Fusion" means that somehow I want to be transferred to sales to buy CF.  I was then sent back to Enterprise support to be told that the guy was going to send an email to the "Enterprise Support" who will give me a call back in four hours. Huh?  Do I really want these people working on my server?

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Hello.  I'm the Network Administrator at my place of work.  I'm not the CF guy.  The CF administrator is a contractual/ third party person.  He also built/ designed our website.  I may not be able to answer questions with great detail, but I'll certainly try.  Our web server was put into production on 4/2011.  I did the initial setup and installation of Windows, IIS, and Endpoint.  The server is Windows 2008 R2, an AMD 2.4GHz Quad proccessor, 4GB of RAM.  It's running CF9 and IIS7.  Aside from Symantec Endpoint, CF is the only other installed program.

The site ran fine for a while.  At the end of May, we started experiencing performance issues.  The CPU utilization would become maxed out.  The website would load slowly.  We do mail sends with our server.  The server was sending out emails at a snails pace.  Now, our website will occasionally become unresponsive or just unavailable.  There's not anything that proceeds this when it happens.  Sometimes it'll happen at 1AM in the morning, when obviously no one would be using our site.  On Monday, I brought this up to our CF administrator who suggested contacting Adobe.  He stated that he has other clients that run similar setups without issues.

Could someone assist me?  Are there any logs anyone would like to see?

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    Legend
    June 15, 2011

    Hi,

    Check in the CFadmin UI logs (http://.../cfide/administrator/index.cfm) Debugging & Logging > Log Files for some errors. Probably more helpful will be the logs in \ColdFusion9\runtime\logs\ coldfusion-event coldfusion-out (\Jrun4\logs\ muti server). Pay attention to what is in the log prior to the system going slow and during the slow period.

    HTH, Carl.

    Participant
    June 15, 2011

    Check your CF administration settings Server Settings, Client Variables

    If they are set to use the Registry (this was the default on our CF servers) you will need to set them to use a database somewhere.

    see:

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec0c35c-7fd5.html

    The symptoms you describe sound just like ours about a year ago. It was the Client Variable issue with our servers and we did not even have them enabled.

    Inspiring
    June 15, 2011

    Get in touch with Mike Brunt (http://www.cfwhisperer.com/).  He specialises in this sort of consultancy, and he really knows his stuff.

    Adobe's CF support is for supporting the CF product (eg: "there's this bug in CF preventing me from doing x"), not for supporting CF-written applications, so I think you're probably barking up the wrong tree even soliciting them for help.

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    Adam