InetInfo.exe causing system to hang

Sorry about that. IIS 6.0

Craig

"Egbert Nierop (MVP for IIS)" <egbert_nierop.DeleteThis@nospam.invalid> wrote in
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> "Crash" <crashmeister.DeleteThis@community.nospam> wrote in message
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>> Hello,
>>
>> I've looked and discovered there are numerous posts regarding
>> inetinfo.exe going stupid, but I haven't seen any solutions.
>>
>> This started off as a Visual Studio 2005 post, as the IDE would lock up
>> as soon as we tried to write ASP code. After two days of searching, we
>> found that inetinfo.exe was causing the system to hang (it even prevented
>> installs and uninstalls from happening). The CPU usage did not go way
>> up, but when we killed the inetinfo.exe process everything that was hung
>> started working again. Inetinfo.exe promptly popped right back into the
>> process list, but it was much better behaved.
>>
>
> Which IIS? 5 or 6?
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""WenJun Zhang[msft]"" <wjzhang.TakeThisOut@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Craig,
>
> To troubleshoot this kind of hang/crash issue, you have to capture memory
> dump files of inetinfo.exe when the problem is occoring and submit it to
> Microsoft Customer Service and Support services for anaylsis and
> debugging.
> So that a dedicated Support Professional can assist with this request.
> Each MSDN subscriber has 2 support incident tickets.

Hi WenJun,

Don't you agree, that IIS 6 *constantly* crashes and that there has not been
any patch or KB that admitted this, to solve this?

IIS 5 was very stable, but IIS 6 seems too unstable and crashy.
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"David Wang [Msft]" <someone.RemoveThis@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> inetinfo.exe stores and returns IIS-related configuration.
>
> I am not aware of any reports of inetinfo.exe hanging.
>
> Since it is a shared process, it is important to identify what is hanging
> within it by using a debugger. You may have corrupt configuration.
> Otherwise, it is impossible to fix.

Hi David,

this is true.
Sometimes, after just starting IIS and if an SMTP mail goes in immediately,
inetinfo.exe crashes.

I cannot reproduce, and I don't have the wish to debug this all...
:<
If it were a consequent thing, I would have loved to hand you a report that
you can reproduce.
It is just a fact, IIS 6 is rather unstable in the time that I got to know
this IIS.
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"David Wang [Msft]" <someone.RemoveThis@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I think it is more interesting to diagnose the crash to determine the
>cause.
>
> Can you provide substantial proof that "IIS6 *constantly* crashes" so that
> we can debug and resolve it.
>
> Because otherwise, I am not certain how to patch/admit to non-actionable
> hearsay.


I have hundreds of crash reports and I've have them sent through automatic
submission.

And I've once sent such a crash report to you ,here in this NG, but you
coudl not see any crash reason. W3WP.exe crashes on a daily base on an
unspecified memory address and because of this, I made sure that I removed
..NET interop components. I rewrote all components to COM components.

THen I started testing a certain intranet application on IIS 6 on a virtual
Server(s) with fresh installations out of the box. And the same crashes
happened again, this time without running any custom components at all but
only when I used ASp .NET 2.0.

It's not 'hear say' but it's a fact. And debug diag, well, it did not
pinpoint any recognizable API.
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"David Wang [Msft]" <someone DeleteThis @online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm sorry but I cannot recall the crash dump analysis; do you have a repro
> to share.
>
> IIS6 w3wp.exe is merely hosting other application code to run. So, I am
> not certain how you can say "IIS6 is rather unstable" if it only crashes
> when you used ASP.NET 2.0, and we should know that "ASP.Net != IIS".
>
> Using this logic, you can say that Microsoft Windows is unstable when we
> should really be looking at the cause of the instability and not bicker
> over emotions.
>
> If you can provide a stack trace of the w3wp.exe when the unspecified
> memory address error happens, that would be great. I mean, I can say that
> I have a colony of Martians at my house and tell it to everyone, but does
> that make it a fact?

I installed the latest IIS Diag Tool but it complains about not being able
to connect COM+ to Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTS)
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