CF8 Standard Hangs

Recently upgraded to CF8 on 6 of our servers. Our software
vendor recommended we go with coldfusion standard edition. We have
550 concurrent connections, with the users browsing pages and
generating PDF Quotes. Every couple of days coldfusion locks up and
we have to restart the Coldfusion server. I have to report to my
boss if upgrading to enterprise will correct the problem. Only the
18k we are going to spend in upgrading doesn't warrant any help
from Adobe they want me to pay $400.00 so an engineer can tell me
we need to spend another 18k. So I'm hoping someone else has
experienced a similar problem, or can point me in the right
direction where I can prove to my boss that the single threading of
CF8 cfdocument tag is causing the server to lock up.

Since standard does not have the built in monitor, one or
both of the
third party tools, (SeeFusion and FusionReactor) provide
great
monitoring features that can point out bottle necks and poor
preforming
code. They would show the threads piling up behind this
single thread
point, if that is what is happening.
They both have trials as well as very low costs so that would
be my
first sugestion.

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