App Pool Crashing – Part 2
When we left off on this issue, the app pool was crashing at semi-random intervals. After much discussion with Microsoft’s IIS forum, Microsoft’s ASP.Net forum (not much help there), and peer development groups (AZGroups.com primarily), I downloaded and installed IISState.exe, which is a command line monitor (basically) that is placed on the IIS server and listens for app pool issues. It’s far more detailed than Event Log or App Pool logging, providing codes at every POST/GET. Additionally, I tried turning…
App Pool Crashing – Part 1
While working on a website that’s designed to run 24 hours a day with no user interaction (an automatically-updating display for users to walk past and see), I came across an interesting phenomenon. Now, the website is designed in ASP.Net 3.5 with AJAX. There’s an UpdatePanel and a Timer, and that’s it for the AJAX portion. The Timer control fires every 10 seconds and fires the UpdatePanel. Simple enough, right? Well, at random instances the website would stop updating and…