Hi ColdFusion Members 🙂 I have an important urgent question about ColdFusion Registry. Can anyone tell me what is in the registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Macromedia\ColdFusion\Clients ? The Size is over 2GB and i believe thats the reason my Server going crazy. Can anyone help me? ^^"

Client variables stored in registyr.. https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/developing-applications/developing-cfml-applicati[…]-data-and-locking/configuring-and-using-client-variables.html

Any idea why CF dont purge the registry ^^"

@Manta no need to post your comments back to the channel as well, thanks. It kinda defeats the purpose of keeping topics in threads.

Sorry slack chat is a bit new for me 😅

In general: don't use client variables. And if you do, absolutely DO NOT store them in the registry. I'm pretty sure CF will sweep expired client vars if it actively notices they've expired, but if they get abandoned then it won't. Anyway, I'd not worry about that whilst you have a server going crazy. Just delete them. But also: switch client storage to use the DB, and then find out why yer creating client variables in the first place, and stop doing it.

Right on the money Adam!! I'm surprised that CF still uses them and supports them. Haven't used them since CF6.1 days. Found them to be too processor intensive for my purposes. Switching to the DB is recommended if you have to use them.

I will switch to database now. The registry grow so much (more as 2GB) windows wouldn’t install apps or don’t accept any changes cause registry was full xD the startup of the server took more as a half hour. Thanks a lot for the help