Disappearing Application variables

Question

I have a problem where I set APPLICATION variables and they seem to disappear within 3-30 minutes. I have set the CF Administrator to 7 days default timeout and also set this as the timeout in the Application.cfc. Any ideas why these variables could be just disappearing?

Answer 1

I would disable the timeout altogether. Also, since application variables are scoped globally, it's likely concurrent operations are changing the variables.

Also, check the name of the application. If two deployment share the same name, they will compete for the same application variables.