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Deepak Sir
Deepak Sir

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ColdFusion Service Consuming Excessive RAM Over Time

The server starts fresh on Monday morning. ColdFusion uses 1.2 GB of RAM. The application responds in milliseconds. Users are happy. By Wednesday, RAM is at 2.8 GB. Response times have crept up. Garbage collection runs every 30 seconds now. By Friday, the server is at 4.5 GB of RAM and the CPU spikes to 100% on every GC cycle. Users complain about timeouts. Saturday’s monitoring alert fires at 2 AM. The server is dead. The on-call engineer restarts ColdFusion. The clock resets. The cycle begins again.
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