Adobe 38043740 - ColdFusion Standard - Mac Manual page 63

5.2 Server Settings > Request Tuning
The Request Tuning settings can help mitigate the ability to perform a successful Denial of Service (DOS)
attack on your server.
Setting Default
Maximum number 25
of simultaneous
Template requests
Maximum number 5
of simultaneous
Flash Remoting
requests
Maximum number
5
of simultaneous
Web Service
requests
Recommendation Description
Tuned based on When this setting is too high or too
hardware low the ability to perform a denial of
capabilities, and service attack increases. When too
application low requests will be queued when
characteristics. the server is placed under load.
When too high requests may not be
queued under load causing the CPU
time of all requests to increase
significantly (known as context
switching). Find a good medium by
performing load tests against your
production environment, use the
value that has the ability to serve the
most requests per second.
1 if not using Flash If your applications do not use flash
Remoting, remoting set this value to 1. If you do
otherwise tuned. use flash remoting use a load testing
approach to find the optimal value
for this setting.
1 if not using If your applications do not use SOAP
SOAP web web services set this value to 1.
services, otherwise Otherwise tune this setting using
tuned load tests.
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