Re: Odd problem

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From: Dave (1_at_1.ca)
Date: 05/26/04


Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 08:20:36 -0400

Wow. Great response - thanks Jim!

Jim Buyens wrote:
> A lot of weird stuff happens to a Web server. Visitors
> send malformed requests, they terminate connections
> unexpectedly, they click the Submit button twenty or
> thirty times if there's a momentary delay in response. In
> addition, no piece of software is immune to memory leaks
> and other problems that build up over time. As a result,
> all Web servers (and not just IIS) occasionally hang for
> no apparent reason.
>
> If this turns out to be a one-time occurrence, I'd
> probably just forget about it. If it keeps happening, you
> may want to institute regular reboots (i.e. once a month
> of once every two weeks). If it starts happening a *lot*,
> you may want to increase the amount of physical memory on
> the server, check the overall server load, or look for
> hardware problems.
>
> And of course, stay up to date with all Windows Updates
> and other fixes.
>
> It's very odd, however, that you could access this site
> via FrontPage (using http, I presume) and not via the
> browser. The opposite problem (accessible by browser, not
> by FrontPage) is much more common. This suggests that some
> network interruption may have occurred at about the same
> time. Which is also nothing to worry about, unless you're
> the network guy or wish to beat up on one.
>
> Jim Buyens
> Microsoft FrontPage MVP
> http://www.interlacken.com
> Author of:
> *----------------------------------------------------
> |\---------------------------------------------------
> || Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
> ||---------------------------------------------------
> || Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
> || Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
> || Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
> || (All from Microsoft Press)
> |/---------------------------------------------------
> *----------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I have about 30 sites all using FPSE without any trouble.
>
> Then this
>
>>morning one of them was unresponsive. Couldn't hit the
>
> URL, but it would
>
>>load within FrontPage. I tried stopping and starting that
>
> particular
>
>>site, but that did no good. The solution was to run
>
> IISRESET.
>
>>I guess my question is why would this happen? Or what
>
> could have caused
>
>>this?
>>
>>thanks!
>>.
>>Gre



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