RE: Web Server Locked --event log has cryptic messages...

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I did finally find a fix to the problem, here is what I did:

In IIS I created a new application pool and put the application in that
pool. It didn't fix the problem, but limited the site being unavailable to
only those in the same application pool.

I also found that the reason my sites were going down is I was getting
System.OutOfMemoryException and that was what took all the sites in the
application pool down. So to fix, I adjusted the virtual file size as
suggested here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/memory/base/4gt_ram_tuning.asp

The boot.ini file is modified by adding the two parameters /3GB and
/USERVA=3030. For a Small Business Server 2003 the entry could look as
follows:

[boot loader]

Timeout=30 Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [Operating
Systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server for
Small Business Server" /fastdetect /3GB /USERVA=3030

SBS 2003—like Windows Server 2003—reserves 2 GB of virtual address space for
the kernel and allows user-mode processes to use 2 GB of virtual address
space. A specific amount of virtual memory is assigned to a process when it
starts. This amount can increase during operation. By default, the memory
usage of a process is much smaller than the address space allocated for that
process. the /3GB modification is made so that 3 GB of memory is available
for user-mode processes.

hope that helps somebody else too...
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Michael C.
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"Michael C." wrote:

Hi,
I am hosting about 50 websites on my SBS 2003. I am also running exchange as
a POP3 on the same server, so I also am running Symantec Mail Security for
Microsoft® Exchange Version: 4.6.1.107. This afternoon, IIS locked up and I
don't know why. There are a series of errors in the event log. Can anyone
deciper what happened?

Here's the event log sequence:
Event Source: Symantec AntiVirus
Time: 3:13:16 PM
New virus definition file loaded. Version: 80801ak.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Time: 3:49:13 PM
Windows cannot query for the list of Group Policy objects. Check the event
log for possible messages previously logged by the policy engine that
describes the reason for this.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: MSExchangeAL
Time: 3:52:09 PM
LDAP Bind was unsuccessful on directory web.WEBMENTORS.local for
distinguished name ''. Directory returned error:[0x34] Unavailable.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: MSExchangeDSAccess
Time: 3:52:09 PM
Process MAD.EXE (PID=3708). All Domain Controller Servers in use are not
responding
Event Type: Information
Time: 3:52:12 PM
lsass (908) The database engine stopped.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: MSExchangeAL
Time: 3:52:15 PM
LDAP Bind was unsuccessful on directory <localmachine> for distinguished
name ''. Directory returned error:[0x51] Server Down.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: MSExchangeAL
Time: 3:52:17 PM
The Win32 API call 'DsGetDCNameW' returned error code [0x862] The specified
component could not be found in the configuration information. The service
could not be initialized. Make sure that the operating system was installed
properly.


At this point, I rebooted the machine...and it came back up. Any help would
be appreciated...








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