Re: IIS 6 loses ASP sessions

From: David Wang [Msft] (someone_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:34:14 -0800

Please respond to this thread to get my attention -- otherwise, I may not
notice it.

My rationale is because ASP session is stored in-process -- meaning that if
you lose sessions it's usually either:
1. ASP bug with keeping track of session IDs -- hard to imagine since it'd
pretty much break sessions world-wide and we haven't seen that
2. process containing ASP is recycling, which destroys in-process session
state and hence it looks like it is "lost"

If #2 is happening, you should see Event Log messages. Common causes of #2
include crashes happening in the worker process (different process identity
than in IIS5 Isolation Mode -- perhaps you have an incompatible component
with IIS6 running in your ASP pages). So, I want to make sure that your ASP
pages are NOT crashing before going further. 

-- 
//David
IIS
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"curious_Lee" <curiousLee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0336F6B4-0326-4A56-A47F-4C43AB721A4E@microsoft.com...
David,
I'll pass this to our server folks and see if they can turn off Isolation
Mode on our test machine and have it in full 6.0 mode and watch for anything
that might pop up in the event log. Please return here in a day or so -- 
I'll
have an update for you. Thank you :)
"David Wang [Msft]" wrote:
> Check the event log.  Is the application pool recycling worker processes
or
> not?
>
> -- 
> //David
> IIS
> http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
> //
> "curious_Lee" <curious_Lee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7CC03F68-C6BD-4281-BCA2-BF445C4D81F4@microsoft.com...
> Hello. We're having this problem on both our development and production
> servers. All of our ASP apps lose their session variables after only 20 or
> 30
> seconds, unless we run IIS 6.0 in 5.0 Isolation Mode. One machine runs the
> standard edition and the other runs enterprise. What's causing this? Any
> solutions? Help!!
>
>
>

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