Hey All,

My server has been crashing steadily, around once a day; almost all of the time CPU usage is usually at 75% or more

The server is Dual Pentium III 750 with 768 RAM. 2 X 18 Gig SCSI Drives. I just can't figure out why or who is causing the CPU usage to always be above 75% when we only have less than 100 customers per server!


What do you guys think it is? I will be happy to work with somebody who can help me fix this. You can chat with me directly by AIM with username "frontserve"

How many sites on the box?

Only 83 sites on the server; all very small with a few sites using ASP and CF.

Also, before it crashes. ASP and ColdFusion pages will stop loading and will just time out. When this happens only HTML pages load....

ColdFusion and Access
We had a similar problem when tyring to run a Coldfusion application tied to an MS Access database. The customer did not want to port the database to SQL Server, so we used the Access database.

For unknown reasons (or one's I cannot remember), the server would spiral down almost every other day. Performance logs often showed the CPU getting maxed out. This had to do with Access and some problems with the CF data connection.

There is a document in the tech library on Allaire's site that talks about using CF with Access databases. We now cycle the CF server nightly and we do not have any problems. The tech document provided the scripts to do the cycling. I think the problem has to do with persistence database connections, which if you turn off drives down site performance. The CF server can cycle in just a few seconds, so unless your running misison critical apps or e-commerce -- this might be a solution.

ASP always crash the IIS,

Can you find anything in the eventlog which might help?