title: How to Calculate ColdFusion Cached Template Memory Consumption
body: <p>Specifically I'm trying to figure out a rough way to calculate a good value, relative to JVM settings, for <em>CF Admin > Server Settings > Caching > Maximum number of cached templates</em>.</p>
  
  <p>So what I'm trying to figure out is whether or not it's possible to use the Admin API to get this information from ColdFusion? Or, if there's another way using Java for instance.<br>
  The only guidance I've found is from <a href="http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Admin/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbf3638e6-7ffc.html#WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbf3638e6-7ff9" rel="nofollow">Adobe's documentation suggesting 1 template per megabyte allocated to the JVM</a>. </p>
  
  <p>Please no answers about profiling.  </p>