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lvadavid · 03-04-2004, 02:33 PM

We sometimes get some TV exposure and get huge volumes of Web site traffic at those times. When we do, our Web site slows down significantly and takes 10 to 15 seconds to load pages that normally just take a couple seconds.

Our bandwidth is excellent. We've tested that. Our hardware, servers, routers, etc. is up to the task. The servers and the database server rarely get above 50% CPU usage.

We think that when we get slammed with traffic the thing that is causing the slowness is the "number of connections"

We are running our servers on Windows 2003 Advanced server, and we are running Cold Fusion MX 6.1.

I guess there is some limitation in Cold Fusion or in Windows 2003 server or in Java (which is the engine behind the new Cold Fusion) or somewhere that limits the number of connections or something.

Does anyone have some knowledge and/or experience with this?

03-04-2004, 02:33 PM
lvadavid Registered User Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 21	High-traffic slowness due to "number of connections" on Windows 2003 w CF MX 6.1? We sometimes get some TV exposure and get huge volumes of Web site traffic at those times. When we do, our Web site slows down significantly and takes 10 to 15 seconds to load pages that normally just take a couple seconds. Our bandwidth is excellent. We've tested that. Our hardware, servers, routers, etc. is up to the task. The servers and the database server rarely get above 50% CPU usage. We think that when we get slammed with traffic the thing that is causing the slowness is the "number of connections" We are running our servers on Windows 2003 Advanced server, and we are running Cold Fusion MX 6.1. I guess there is some limitation in Cold Fusion or in Windows 2003 server or in Java (which is the engine behind the new Cold Fusion) or somewhere that limits the number of connections or something. Does anyone have some knowledge and/or experience with this?