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as Dave said, not enough info and too generic a question, you should check the server monitor or fusionReactor to see how much memory CF is using.atany time to get a better idea of what the requirements are. I can tell you that a typical cf site will run happily on a VM with 2GB RAM and 1 core, in fact this will happily run dozens of typical sites. > > > For those of you using virtual servers, how much CPU/RAM are you > allocating to run your CF applications? > > That is too general a question to get a useful answer. > > > The IT department says we don't need more power because, statistically > (according to the VM tools), we don't need it. > > However, it is my believe the apps will run much faster and CF/Java will > be able do a better job of maintaining memory > > used by the JVM. Overall, our applications are running quite well with > our current config (2 CPUs & 5 GB of RAM), but > > the occasional long running report, or heavy lifting scheduled page will > consume too much of the available memory > > bringing a server to its knees. > > Are you running 32- or 64-bit OSs? If 64-bit, are you also running a > 64-bit version of CF? > > > Of course, we can always go back and optimize code, but at some point > you reach a point of diminishing returns. Focusing > > our programming resources on less than 0.1% of the code... wouldn't it > just be less expensive to throw some (virtually free) > > additional processing power at the problem. How can that possibly hurt > the situation? > > It sounds like you have some specific things (long running reports, > "heavy lifting" scheduled pages) which might be candidates for (a) > handling outside of CF, or (b) optimization. As for whether it's less > expensive, only you and your server admins can answer that with > certainty. Nothing is ever free - presumably, your admins are > rationing resources in order to share among all the servers. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > http://training.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on > GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. > >