CF 5 to 6.1 upgrade

[tduffy]

I have delayed upgrading from CF 5 to CF 6.1 for 2 years because when I do the
response for cf pages is at least 3 times slower with cf 6.1. I have a need to
upgrade the os from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003 which requires at least cf
6.1. Is there any solution to the slower responses to cf pages with cf 6.1? I
can't believe there would be an upgrade like this and deliver such a poor
response from cf pages. Everything is working even with cf 6.1, it's just aa
LOT slower now.

[tduffy]

I have delayed upgrading from CF 5 to CF 6.1 for 2 years because when I do the
response for cf pages is at least 3 times slower with cf 6.1. I have a need to
upgrade the os from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003 which requires at least cf
6.1. Is there any solution to the slower responses to cf pages with cf 6.1? I
can't believe there would be an upgrade like this and deliver such a poor
response from cf pages. Everything is working even with cf 6.1, it's just a LOT
slower now.

[LarryC]

There is no fundamental reason for cfmx to be slower then CF 5.0, though I
certainly believe that is the symptom your are seeing. Are all pages of all
types slow, or just pages that touch outside services like database, ldap
servers and the like ? Have you considered ideas in technotes like 'ColdFusion
Performance Debugging ?' as there are things that affect performance - but you
can get past them.

[Mike Greider]

Do you have debugging turned on? I know that for us, debugging was causing alot of the slowdown. You really don't need debugging turned on for production anyway.

[tduffy]

Debugging is not turned on and I am going through the Performance Debugging now. I believe I have gotten some better performance already. Thanks for the input.

[Mike Greider]

Have you checked out the other threads about slow page responses? Are all of
your pages slow, or just certian ones that contain specific functionality,
i.e., database calls, LDAP, cfmail, etc? Are you running with debugging on?
Debugging can be a performance killer.

[tduffy]

Thanks for the feedback. Debugging is not on. It happens with all cf pages. I
am working through some of the suggestions on performance optimizing. Have
gotten some improvement. Still working on some more.

[Mike Greider]

If you want to post a page or two, I'd be happy to help look through them for some suggestions. We haven't really noticed any slowdown when we converted.