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for application variables is two days. The default timeout for session variables is 20
minutes.

Monitoring ColdFusion Performance

ColdFusion provides a set of counters for monitoring the performance of the
ColdFusion Server. This allows you to use the Windows NT Performance Monitor
administration utility to monitor ColdFusion performance. This enhancement to NT
Performance Monitor is installed automatically by the ColdFusion setup.
A Windows NT Performance Monitor configuration file has been added to ColdFusion
for Windows systems that is pre-configured to monitor ColdFusion Server activity. The
Performance Monitor configuration file,
cfusion\bin.
To monitor ColdFusion Server activity, click on the ColdFusion Performance Monitor
icon in the ColdFusion Server Program group. You can also open the Performance
Monitor utility and then open the

ColdFusion counters available

ColdFusion supports 11 different counters you can enable in the Windows
Performance Monitor:
Average database transaction time
Average queue time
Average request time
Bytes incoming per second
Bytes outgoing per second
Database hits per second
Page hits per second
Cache pops per second
Number of queued requests
Number of running requests
Number of timed out requests
To enable the Performance Monitor for ColdFusion:
1. Open the ColdFusion Administrator to the Miscellaneous Debugging page.
2. Click the Enable performance monitoring option. The default is off.
3. Click Apply to save the new setting.
Administering ColdFusion Server
ColdFusionServer.pmc
cfusion/bin/ColdFusionServer.pmc
is installed in
file.