Why does CF11 seem to sleep after no access within a few minutes?

Question

I was using CF10 and my site response time was quick, especially on my local development machine.  I upgraded my development and live servers to CF11 and both seem to have a delay in first access.  It seems to be client and possibly browser specific.  If I just walk away for about 10 minutes and come back, then when I try to load my site (on my local machine) it takes about 10 seconds to load.  As long as I keep using it it is fast and responsive, but if I walk away for 10 minutes again and come back, it seems to have to wake up.
Is there a setting that I can tune?  Is anyone else seeing this?
I will also make note that even if one website I am developing on is quick and responsive, as soon as I try to access another website using the same IIS and CF11 then it has a wait time.  It is like it is figuring something out with the browser before it is willing to load.

Answer 1

Thanks, that was a great thing to check.  Mine are set to "automatic".  I don't think that would be it anyway, because it is not just when the service starts, it is constantly sleeps just by not accessing the page for 10 minutes, then when I come back to the page it has to wake up or do something.
One thing I am curious into looking into is something to do with storing client information.  I wonder if after the session has timed out if it has to make a client connection and setup information before it will show the page.  It may be what I am setting in my application.  Here is what I have in the basic format (this is everything that I see that deals with my session management):
application.cfc
<cfcomponent output="false">
  <cfscript>
  //Set Application variables and session management
  this.name = "mywebsite";
  this.applicationTimeout = createTimeSpan(0,0,45,0);
  this.datasource="myDSN";
  this.sessionmanagement = "true";
  this.sessiontimeout = createTimeSpan(0,1,00,0);
  this.scriptProtect = "all";
</cfscript>
<cffunction name="onApplicationStart" returntype="boolean" output="true">
  <cfscript>
  application.sessions = 0;
  </cfscript>
</cffunction>
<cffunction name="onSessionStart" access="public" returntype="void" output="false">
  <cfset var rootDir = "">
  <cfparam name="application.sessions" default="0">
  <cfscript>
  session.started = now();
  </cfscript>
  <cflock scope="SESSION" throwontimeout="No" timeout="5" type="Exclusive">
  <cfset application.sessions = application.sessions + 1>
  </cflock>
</cffunction>