Idle Timeout disabled, still times out

External Since: Aug 15, 2006 Posts: 4

Using IIS6 on Win2k3, no IIS5 compatilibility mode. I have a large ASP.NET
application with a startup time of 5-10 seconds, and I want to eliminate any
and all idle shutdowns.

We use SQL State Server and the web servers are NLB'ed.

I have created a fresh app pool and disabled any and all recycling and
timeout options in the IIS manager. I double-checked the metabase.xml to be
sure. I have restarted IIS as well.

I moved in one site to the new app pool that is receiving no activity. I
can hit the site, then hit it even as quickly as 15 minutes later, and the
site has gone idle and re-loads. I experience the longer startup time from
the ASP.NET components, and a new "header" is added to the IIS log file. I
know for sure I am hitting the same web server each time.

This is happening on all of our app pools, even though they are set to not
idle timeout both on the app pool and on the global app pool level.

On our busy sites that do not experience more than a few seconds of idle
time, the sites never recycle.

I have checked web.configs, machine.configs, everywhere. I cannot find any
place that would override this setting.

Any ideas?

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Stefan Barlow
MCSD.Net

External Since: Aug 15, 2006 Posts: 4

Update.

Debug is showing now that the application is not really reloading, however
there is still a significant 6-10 second delay between 20 minute idle times,
and there is a header entry into the log file for the first request after
each idle time:

#Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0
#Version: 1.0
#Date: 2006-08-16 01:34:41
#Fields: date ...

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Stefan Barlow
MCSD.Net