Re: IIS 6.0 issue

From: Jeff (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:49:59 -0700

David

thanks for the reply.

However, one thing that concerns me is that i never had
these problems in IIS 5.0 in win2k.
Oh well.

I have disabled some monitoring of the worker processes
and we will see if that helps..

thanks

>-----Original Message-----
>How about making the applications that run on the server
more stable? IIS6
>tries its best to recover from user problems, but
sometimes, it may not be
>possible nor make sense, so IIS will disable the
application pool to prevent
>further server damage.
>
>Seriously, you should not need to re-install IIS6 to fix
the issue you
>describe. Can you give the event log entry that says WHY
the DefaultAppPool
>is being disabled? Then, can you fix your application
such that it doesn't
>cause the Application Pool to be disabled?
>
>A disabled application pool can be re-enabled by simply
going to the UI,
>selecting the stopped application pool, and changing it
to "start". Now,
>that says nothing about whether you could be running junk
in the application
>pool that makes it disabled again.
>
>All IIS is doing is trying to run your application. If
your application
>misbehaves and triggers the many health-monitoring checks
of IIS6, the
>Application Pool gets recycled. When this recycle
happens too many times
>and too frequently, IIS stops the Application Pool to
prevent any more abuse
>of system resources. This is also a sign for you to fix
your application or
>maybe IIS configuration (perhaps your health-monitoring
is too aggressive
>for the application).
>
>In other words, IIS6 is simply notifying you of potential
problems and tries
>to buy you some more time by proactively recycling the
application to keep
>it running. You should try to fix the problems, not
shoot the messenger.
>Fundamentally, it is impossible for IIS6 to keep a buggy
application running
>all the time, so the only real way to make the
application more stable is to
>remove the bugs in it.
>
>--
>//David
>IIS
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.
>//
>"JG" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:233d201c45e27$45e15fb0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>Hi all,
>I got an error message this morning from my IIS 6.0
server.
>It seems the Default AppPool was disabled because it had
>something to do with the http.sys.
>
>To resolve this issue, I had to re-install IIS since it
>would not start the websites.
>I also configured an app pool for each website running on
>the server. I also disabled Rapid Failover and Pinging.
>
>Is there anything else I can do to make the server more
>stable ?
>
>thanks
>
>
>.
>

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