Restarting IIS

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I know this fits in MS Development but it affects my hosting as a reseller so I thought I would start here.

I just got a response to a ticket about Jodohost recycling IIS on win5 every 4 hours because of resource consumption due to ASP.NET. Just wondering if this is correct or do you mean the asp.net worker process. If you are restarting IIS just because of ASP.Net you could set the Memory limit lower and let the worker process restart itself, which actually starts a new process and hands off the currently running process so you really never have down time. This would keep from taking down none asp.net sites. That’s what we do at the office. Just a thought and you probably have already come across this.

Here is an article about that

Technical documentation | Microsoft Learn

and

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/deployguide/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/deployguide/en-us/iisdg_upg_exzn.asp

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I’ll have to check that ticket response. Yes, we have set an ASP.NET memory treshhold after with the asp.net process is recycled.

We had a outofmemory issue on Win5 which we corrected with a hot-fix

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So you are not restaring IIS every 4 hours on win5?

Don’t know if you were needing my ticket number but here it is just in case - 28745.

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win5 is NOT resetting iis every X hours of any number.

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That is good to know.

Any thoughts as to why I was told that in the ticket?

Thanks Stephen and Yash

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They probably confused win5 with win6 more than anything, win6 was doing the IIS reset every 4 hours, but that was increased to 6,8, and now not being reset