machine.config & aspnet_wp.exe worker process recycles

[cmilhench]

Hi

We have a problem with memory consumption of my aspnet_wp.exe worker process. The proccess consumes more and more memory until eventualy we start getting out of memory Exceptions. Configuring the machine.config to recycle the process when it uses ~800MB solves this problem but unfortunatly we now go through a recycle events approximatly every 30 minutes.

Some people have told me that the 800Mb sweet spot is a conincidence and were realy aiming for a 2Gb limit but have other applications running on the box. I'm not wholely convinced about this as our OS is Windows Server 2003 Enterprise and we have 5.5Gb RAM.

The server itself hosts multiple WebApps many of which use a 3rd party COM component forcing us to run in IIS5 backwards compatibility mode.

Any advice or pointers would be apprecieted.

[epots9]

Hi cmilhench welcome to TSDN,

This is usually caused when there is a programming error...orphans objects are not deleted.

The application is deleting the pointer to the object but not the object (this is known as a memory leak).

u'll need to look/monitor your code to see where/when the memory leaks are happening so u can correct them.

good luck

[cmilhench]

Cheers for that.

I'll look into how were accessing the 3rd party COM component

C