Coldfusion 8 Memory Issues Causing 500 Error

well you can try changing the heap size in CF Admin. But i do not know what other implications this can lead

> Is there a config file I can modify to revert the setting back to their default values?

Yes, the memory settings are usually stored in the jvm.config file under java.args.  It's location depends on your configuration.  Example, on a developer version it's C:\ColdFusion8\runtime\bin\jvm.config

Even though your current settings aren't working, always make a back-up of the jvm.config first, because if you mess up other settings it can prevent the server from booting entirely.

> well you can try changing the heap size in CF Admin

@Erik, they said they can't access the CF Admin due to the new settings.

@agx,

I just accessed the jvm.config file and can't find the parameters to modify the memory allocation settings.

This is what I see in that file:

#
# VM configuration
#
# Where to find JVM, if {java.home}/jre exists then that JVM is used
# if not then it must be the path to the JRE itself
java.home=C:/ColdFusion8/runtime/jre
#
# If no java.home is specified a VM is located by looking in these places in this
# order:
#
#  1) bin directory for java.dll (windows) or lib/<ARCH>/libjava.so (unix)
#  2) ../jre
#  3) registry (windows only)
#  4) JAVA_HOME env var plus jre (ie $JAVA_HOME/jre)
#

# Arguments to VM
java.args=-server -Xmx512m -Dsun.io.useCanonCaches=false -XX:MaxPermSize=192m -XX:+UseParallelGC -Xbatch -Dcoldfusion.rootDir={application.home}/../ -Djava.security.policy={application.home}/../lib/coldfusion.policy -Djava.security.auth.policy={application.home}/../lib/neo_jaas.policy -Dcoldfusion.classPath={application.home}/../lib/updates,{application.home}/../lib,{application.home}/../gateway/lib/,{application.home}/../wwwroot/WEB-INF/cfform/jars -Dcoldfusion.libPath={application.home}/../lib

#
# commas will be converted to platform specific separator and the result will be passed
# as -Djava.ext.dirs= to the VM
java.ext.dirs={jre.home}/lib/ext

#
# where to find shared libraries
java.library.path={application.home}/../lib,{application.home}/../jintegra/bin,{application.home}/../jintegra/bin/international
system.path.first=false

#
# set the current working directory - useful for Windows to control
# the default search path used when loading DLLs since it comes
# before system directory, windows directory and PATH
java.user.dir={application.home}/../../lib

# JVM classpath
java.class.path={application.home}/servers/lib,{application.home}/../lib/macromedia_drivers.jar,{application.home}/lib/cfmx_mbean.jar,{application.home}/lib

–Dcoldfusion.fckupload=true

> # Arguments to VM
> java.args=-server -Xmx512m

IIRC, those are the main memory settings configured from the CF admin.  But it doesn't look like it's been changed. At least not to 4G.  The file location I mentioned was just for reference ie for the developer version/built in web server.  What's your actual configuration (web server, etc..)?

So to be clear, the three settings I am referring to are the following:

- Maximum Size Of Post Data
- Request Throttle Threshold
- Request Throttle Memory

They were all set to 4Gigs (4096MB to be exact).

I did a search on "jvm.config" and only found 1 file in the following directory: C:\ColdFusion8\runtime\bin\jvm.config

> Look for a file named  neo-runtime.bak.

   You can either edit the existing neo-runtime.xml file or replace it with the backup file.  As mentioned before,
   these are key configuration files. So always make backups first.

Yes!  I found the neo-runtime.xml and neo-runtime.bak files... Do I simply edit the neo-runtime.xml file, save it and it should work?

It worked!!!!  I had to restart the CF App Service... But I'm back up!  Thank You!   :)

It's probably simpler to just rename the backup file ie  neo-runtime.bak => neo-runtime.xml ... than to edit manually.  But either should work.  You'll may have to shutdown CF though.

Sorry, our posts collided.  Great! Glad to here everything's back to normal now.