how to resolve memory consumption exceeding limit in asp.net? - asp.net

i have created one web application in asp.net[.net 4 framework and visual studio 2010].Now i am running with IIS 5.1 version.When i running my application, i am getting the following error
Server Application Unavailable
The web application you are attempting to access on this web server is currently unavailable. Please hit the "Refresh" button in your web browser to retry your request.
Administrator Note: An error message detailing the cause of this specific request failure can be found in the application event log of the web server. Please review this log entry to discover what caused this error to occur.
I am also checked with EventViewer... It says
Event Type: Error
Event Source: ASP.NET 4.0.30319.0
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 8/10/12
Time: 9:55:47 AM
User: N/A
Computer: SARAVANAN-
Description:
aspnet_wp.exe (PID: 1724) was recycled because memory consumption exceeded the 1221 MB (60 percent of available RAM).
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
I dont know how to resolve this issue? Is there any way to increase the memory consumption limit of RAM for my IIS.
Please guide me to get out of this issue...

Bottom line - you should debug the code to seee why it takes this much memory.
But to answer your actual question, yes, there is a way to increase this limit.
In the machine.config file there is a section named 'processModel' and by default it looks like this:
<processModel autoConfig="true"/>
If you change it to add a 'memoryLimit' value this will modify the percentage value used to determine when to recycle the process. For example:
<processModel autoConfig="true" memoryLimit="90"/>
This would allow the process to consume 90% of available RAM before the process was recycled. The default is '60'. You can of course also set a lower value.

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Random w3wp.exe crashes in .net 4

I have a website which has been up and running absolutely fine for about 8 months now. It's running .net 4 intergrated mode.
Recently i've started to get some "random" w3wp.exe crashes, and after 5 of them, IIS rapid fail protection kicks in and I have to manually login to the server and start the application pool again.
Here's what the event viewer says for the Error:
Faulting application name: w3wp.exe, version: 7.5.7601.17514, time stamp: 0x4ce7afa2
Faulting module name: nlssorting.dll, version: 4.0.30319.296, time stamp: 0x504835c7
Exception code: 0xc00000fd
Fault offset: 0x000000000000191f
Faulting process id: 0x1998
Faulting application start time: 0x01ce6e6b9b80c949
Faulting application path: c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\w3wp.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\nlssorting.dll
Report Id: d9cf3164-da5e-11e2-8cc5-f46d0440f6d5
Straight after the crashes, i get an "Information" log in the event viewer which at the bottom gives me the location of a .wer file.
This is what the .wer files contains:
Version=1
EventType=APPCRASH
EventTime=130162847687759734
ReportType=2
Consent=1
ReportIdentifier=d7c5e520-da5e-11e2-8cc5-f46d0440f6d5
IntegratorReportIdentifier=d7c5e51f-da5e-11e2-8cc5-f46d0440f6d5
Response.type=4
Sig[0].Name=Application Name
Sig[0].Value=w3wp.exe
Sig[1].Name=Application Version
Sig[1].Value=7.5.7601.17514
Sig[2].Name=Application Timestamp
Sig[2].Value=4ce7afa2
Sig[3].Name=Fault Module Name
Sig[3].Value=nlssorting.dll
Sig[4].Name=Fault Module Version
Sig[4].Value=4.0.30319.296
Sig[5].Name=Fault Module Timestamp
Sig[5].Value=504835c7
Sig[6].Name=Exception Code
Sig[6].Value=c00000fd
Sig[7].Name=Exception Offset
Sig[7].Value=000000000000197d
DynamicSig[1].Name=OS Version
DynamicSig[1].Value=6.1.7601.2.1.0.1296.17
DynamicSig[2].Name=Locale ID
DynamicSig[2].Value=2057
DynamicSig[22].Name=Additional Information 1
DynamicSig[22].Value=6141
DynamicSig[23].Name=Additional Information 2
DynamicSig[23].Value=61419d6dee6cf74b8ac2b00b4c3b3373
DynamicSig[24].Name=Additional Information 3
DynamicSig[24].Value=c19b
DynamicSig[25].Name=Additional Information 4
DynamicSig[25].Value=c19b8acf029a3088171b1f5f3dd9dc77
UI[2]=c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\w3wp.exe
UI[5]=Check online for a solution (recommended)
UI[6]=Check for a solution later (recommended)
UI[7]=Close
UI[8]=IIS Worker Process stopped working and was closed
UI[9]=A problem caused the application to stop working correctly. Windows will notify you if a solution is available.
UI[10]=&Close
LoadedModule[0]=c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\w3wp.exe
LoadedModule[1]=C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
LoadedModule[2]=C:\Windows\system32\kernel32.dll
LoadedModule[3]=C:\Windows\system32\KERNELBASE.dll
LoadedModule[4]=C:\Windows\system32\ADVAPI32.dll
LoadedModule[5]=C:\Windows\system32\msvcrt.dll
LoadedModule[6]=C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\sechost.dll
LoadedModule[7]=C:\Windows\system32\RPCRT4.dll
LoadedModule[8]=C:\Windows\system32\pcwum.DLL
LoadedModule[9]=C:\Windows\system32\USER32.dll
LoadedModule[10]=C:\Windows\system32\GDI32.dll
LoadedModule[11]=C:\Windows\system32\LPK.dll
LoadedModule[12]=C:\Windows\system32\USP10.dll
LoadedModule[13]=C:\Windows\system32\ole32.dll
LoadedModule[14]=c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\IISUTIL.dll
LoadedModule[15]=C:\Windows\system32\IMM32.DLL
LoadedModule[16]=C:\Windows\system32\MSCTF.dll
LoadedModule[17]=C:\Windows\system32\CRYPTBASE.dll
LoadedModule[18]=C:\Windows\system32\ntmarta.dll
LoadedModule[19]=C:\Windows\system32\WLDAP32.dll
LoadedModule[20]=c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\w3wphost.dll
LoadedModule[21]=C:\Windows\system32\OLEAUT32.dll
LoadedModule[22]=c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\nativerd.dll
LoadedModule[23]=C:\Windows\system32\CRYPT32.dll
LoadedModule[24]=C:\Windows\system32\MSASN1.dll
LoadedModule[25]=C:\Windows\system32\XmlLite.dll
LoadedModule[26]=C:\Windows\system32\ktmw32.dll
LoadedModule[27]=c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\IISRES.DLL
LoadedModule[28]=C:\Windows\system32\CRYPTSP.dll
LoadedModule[29]=C:\Windows\system32\rsaenh.dll
LoadedModule[30]=C:\Windows\system32\mscoree.dll
LoadedModule[31]=C:\Windows\system32\CLBCatQ.DLL
LoadedModule[32]=C:\Windows\system32\mlang.dll
LoadedModule[33]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\webengine4.dll
LoadedModule[34]=C:\Windows\system32\MSVCR100_CLR0400.dll
LoadedModule[35]=C:\Windows\system32\USERENV.dll
LoadedModule[36]=C:\Windows\system32\profapi.dll
LoadedModule[37]=C:\Windows\system32\PSAPI.DLL
LoadedModule[38]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\mscoreei.dll
LoadedModule[39]=C:\Windows\system32\SHLWAPI.dll
LoadedModule[40]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\clr.dll
LoadedModule[41]=C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\iiscore.dll
LoadedModule[42]=c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\W3TP.dll
LoadedModule[43]=c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\w3dt.dll
LoadedModule[44]=C:\Windows\system32\HTTPAPI.dll
LoadedModule[45]=C:\Windows\system32\slc.dll
LoadedModule[46]=C:\Windows\system32\WS2_32.dll
LoadedModule[47]=C:\Windows\system32\NSI.dll
LoadedModule[48]=C:\Windows\system32\Normaliz.dll
LoadedModule[49]=C:\Windows\system32\faultrep.dll
LoadedModule[50]=C:\Windows\system32\Secur32.dll
LoadedModule[51]=C:\Windows\system32\SSPICLI.DLL
LoadedModule[52]=C:\Windows\system32\NLAapi.dll
LoadedModule[53]=C:\Windows\system32\napinsp.dll
LoadedModule[54]=C:\Windows\System32\mswsock.dll
LoadedModule[55]=C:\Windows\system32\DNSAPI.dll
LoadedModule[56]=C:\Windows\System32\winrnr.dll
LoadedModule[57]=C:\Windows\System32\wshtcpip.dll
LoadedModule[58]=C:\Windows\System32\wship6.dll
LoadedModule[59]=C:\Windows\system32\IPHLPAPI.DLL
LoadedModule[60]=C:\Windows\system32\WINNSI.DLL
LoadedModule[61]=C:\Windows\system32\rasadhlp.dll
LoadedModule[62]=C:\Windows\System32\fwpuclnt.dll
LoadedModule[63]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\cachuri.dll
LoadedModule[64]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\cachfile.dll
LoadedModule[65]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\cachtokn.dll
LoadedModule[66]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\cachhttp.dll
LoadedModule[67]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\compdyn.dll
LoadedModule[68]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\compstat.dll
LoadedModule[69]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\defdoc.dll
LoadedModule[70]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\protsup.dll
LoadedModule[71]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\redirect.dll
LoadedModule[72]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\static.dll
LoadedModule[73]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\authanon.dll
LoadedModule[74]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\authbas.dll
LoadedModule[75]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\authsspi.dll
LoadedModule[76]=C:\Windows\system32\NETAPI32.dll
LoadedModule[77]=C:\Windows\system32\netutils.dll
LoadedModule[78]=C:\Windows\system32\srvcli.dll
LoadedModule[79]=C:\Windows\system32\wkscli.dll
LoadedModule[80]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\iprestr.dll
LoadedModule[81]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\modrqflt.dll
LoadedModule[82]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\logcust.dll
LoadedModule[83]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\custerr.dll
LoadedModule[84]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\loghttp.dll
LoadedModule[85]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\isapi.dll
LoadedModule[86]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\filter.dll
LoadedModule[87]=C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\validcfg.dll
LoadedModule[88]=c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_filter.dll
LoadedModule[89]=C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\wbhst_pm.dll
LoadedModule[90]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\webengine.dll
LoadedModule[91]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\mscorlib\4f52500ab48877b85e71430f4f46670f\mscorlib.ni.dll
LoadedModule[92]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\nlssorting.dll
LoadedModule[93]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System\a91f32875cb3ba779f1b3ceff1690251\System.ni.dll
LoadedModule[94]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Core\0a8d99339ffe6b25debb8f8201c27664\System.Core.ni.dll
LoadedModule[95]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Web\5b905bd7b71f9fd6bea2d05cc1ae85f8\System.Web.ni.dll
LoadedModule[96]=C:\Windows\system32\sxs.dll
LoadedModule[97]=C:\Windows\system32\RpcRtRemote.dll
LoadedModule[98]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Configuration\fa65f89fd682c459fc5e7bcbd0418317\System.Configuration.ni.dll
LoadedModule[99]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Xml\f4afb233f160b8e55aad4660e45b374c\System.Xml.ni.dll
LoadedModule[100]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\clrjit.dll
LoadedModule[101]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\Microsoft.Build.Uti#\14e16d61fae3cd1d9a1fa79b789f8438\Microsoft.Build.Utilities.v4.0.ni.dll
LoadedModule[102]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Runtime.Cach#\8fdbe304abab0631b8a4310b35f3d93a\System.Runtime.Caching.ni.dll
LoadedModule[103]=C:\Windows\system32\shfolder.dll
LoadedModule[104]=C:\Windows\system32\SHELL32.dll
LoadedModule[105]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\Microsoft.JScript\85204dde340780329b569b025e249c23\Microsoft.JScript.ni.dll
LoadedModule[106]=C:\Windows\system32\version.dll
LoadedModule[107]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\587f6661\a99d8ff8\App_Code.cgixlnxh.dll
LoadedModule[108]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Data.Linq\feaa494ad67542d2060b31b9eeb6458b\System.Data.Linq.ni.dll
LoadedModule[109]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Data\b928128fca867546a858a1a39240d85c\System.Data.ni.dll
LoadedModule[110]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\assembly\GAC_64\System.Data\v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.Data.dll
LoadedModule[111]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\587f6661\a99d8ff8\assembly\dl3\595a888a\f26c0653_7f81cd01\HtmlAgilityPack.dll
LoadedModule[112]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Drawing\5ae853f556290da9399b15b3619f7e15\System.Drawing.ni.dll
LoadedModule[113]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\587f6661\a99d8ff8\assembly\dl3\85ba5013\f0c8f388_706bce01\TweetSharp.dll
LoadedModule[114]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Web.Extensio#\0180a2d993d2a9699cf07f7163524fff\System.Web.Extensions.ni.dll
LoadedModule[115]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Transactions\7b2099a1386e38ff198a51939304ce6e\System.Transactions.ni.dll
LoadedModule[116]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\assembly\GAC_64\System.Transactions\v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\System.Transactions.dll
LoadedModule[117]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\587f6661\a99d8ff8\App_global.asax.yxdky-qn.dll
LoadedModule[118]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.ServiceModel#\7a5a5ff4a0b3bb4ba4bcc13166918e36\System.ServiceModel.Activation.ni.dll
LoadedModule[119]=C:\Windows\system32\bcrypt.dll
LoadedModule[120]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Runtime.Dura#\799274e49455d0fe4ca563f42143bef2\System.Runtime.DurableInstancing.ni.dll
LoadedModule[121]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Numerics\a66416296451fe6d2d8a5506ca41b23d\System.Numerics.ni.dll
LoadedModule[122]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.ServiceModel\15834d73d2846fc01ed54488ccfff5c8\System.ServiceModel.ni.dll
LoadedModule[123]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\SMDiagnostics\31f93b6be386908ff2727bcd825de0ca\SMDiagnostics.ni.dll
LoadedModule[124]=C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\System.Xaml.Hosting\cf8401f4952deb5303e0d7fd459ce530\System.Xaml.Hosting.ni.dll
LoadedModule[125]=C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\gzip.dll
LoadedModule[126]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\587f6661\a99d8ff8\assembly\dl3\3d63b311\fe7c9b8a_706bce01\Hammock.ClientProfile.dll
LoadedModule[127]=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\587f6661\a99d8ff8\assembly\dl3\6a128bd2\c184e08a_706bce01\Newtonsoft.Json.dll
LoadedModule[128]=C:\Windows\system32\rasapi32.dll
LoadedModule[129]=C:\Windows\system32\rasman.dll
LoadedModule[130]=C:\Windows\system32\rtutils.dll
LoadedModule[131]=C:\Windows\system32\winhttp.dll
LoadedModule[132]=C:\Windows\system32\webio.dll
LoadedModule[133]=C:\Windows\system32\credssp.dll
LoadedModule[134]=C:\Windows\system32\dhcpcsvc6.DLL
LoadedModule[135]=C:\Windows\system32\dhcpcsvc.DLL
LoadedModule[136]=C:\Windows\system32\security.dll
LoadedModule[137]=C:\Windows\system32\schannel.DLL
LoadedModule[138]=C:\Windows\system32\ncrypt.dll
LoadedModule[139]=C:\Windows\system32\bcryptprimitives.dll
LoadedModule[140]=C:\Windows\system32\GPAPI.dll
FriendlyEventName=Stopped working
ConsentKey=APPCRASH
AppName=IIS Worker Process
AppPath=c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\w3wp.exe
That nlssorting.dll seems to crop up a lot but I can't seem to find anything online related. The only thing I can find which matches my error is here, but that doesn't really help me.
I'm completely stumped as to where to go from here to fix this. Here's what I've tried:
Loading up IIS log files and trying every request from about 30 minutes before a crash, and none of the pages cause any errors.
Searching my code for any recursion which might cause a stackoverflow, but there isn't any
trawling online for ANYTHING that might help
Has anyone else ever had any problems with nlssorting.dll ? Can i get some more information from the .wer file that might help me pin point where this is happening?
Thanks in advance for any help!
UPDATE
I was using a 3rd party DLL, which was causing a stack overflow exception (0xc00000fd)
After more investigation, it was only happening after a certain chain of events happened - hence the "random" in the title. Removing the DLL fixed the problem.
We had the same problem with one of our sites. Using SVN we tracked it down to a method that was scaning for images within a folder.
I modified the code as follows:
Checking array length of scan results to be > 0 instead of == 1
Adding CultureInfo.InvariantCulture to all Int32.ToString() calls
After this we no longer experienced the error. The exact reason is still unknown.
I believe that none of the above points should make a difference in our environment. I believe that the problem could have been, people modifying image files and folders while the image scanning method was called.
I hope this helps somebody.
For anyone who's curious, this is a PITA to debug. Here are three reasons rumored for this to happen:
(1) Stack overflows, as in the original post.
(2) Too much CPU / memory usage, which becomes obvious and rapid fail protection closes the process.
(3) Unable to respond to pings / requests due to application hogging resources, but in a way that rapid fail protection deems appropriate to end the process, not explicitly because of either (1) or (2).
Our solution was to add manual log tracing in the production environment until we eventually found recursion which was leading the application to be stopped by reliability services (for inability to respond to pings, or process randomly crashing) rather than throwing an in-application exception.
I had the issue where w3p would throw an unhandled error as soon I spun up the site\api URI from the web browser, then it would crash.
I was able to pinpoint what part of my code was causing it in my case it was in the Owin Startup class and I was reading some configuration records from a database but prior to that it gets the connection string from a configuration file outside of the web app directory.
I checked the ownership of the folder it showed my account but apparently the subfolders were not owned by me so I set ownership to me again, clicked OK to allow permissions to traverse the objects and voila bye bye w3p error and the API loaded.
So in my case it was an access denied error on the folder \ file that contained the connection string.

DirectoryServicesCOMException 80072020 From IIS 7.5 Site Running Under ApplicationPoolIdentity

I'm having trouble hunting down an issue where an ASP.NET 4 application fails while trying to get user groups for a given user from time to time. The application pool associated with this application is setup to run under ApplicationPoolIdentity.
Exception Info
System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryServicesCOMException
HRESULT: 80072020
Message: An operations error occurred.
Extended Message: 000004DC: LdapErr: DSID-0C0906E8, comment: In order to perform this operation a successful bind must be completed on the connection., data 0, v1db1
Stack Trace
System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind(Boolean)
System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind()
System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.get_AdsObject()
System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher.FindAll(Boolean)
System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher.FindOne()
95%-99% of the time, this function works fine, but from time to time, it just starts failing. When I change the application pool to use LocalSystem or NetworkService, it starts working. When I change back to ApplicationPoolIdentity it begins failing again. The only way to get the site working again with ApplicationPoolIdentity is to reboot the server.
I was able to find a similar issue here, but the resolution was a reboot as well. I'd like to find a more permanent solution short of changing the identity of the application pool.
While a reboot will resolve the issue temporarily, there is a Microsoft hotfix KB2545850 that offers a permanent fix to the issue.

Application pool 'DefaultAppPool' is being automatically disabled due to a series of failures in the process(es) serving that application pool

Log Name: System
Source: Microsoft-Windows-WAS
Date: 13.06.2012 08:34:45
Event ID: 5002
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: WIN-QU022VN756J
Description:
Application pool 'DefaultAppPool' is being automatically disabled due to a series of failures in the process(es) serving that application pool.
Please provide near solution for this problem. I will appreciate the suggestion
IIS comes with a feature called Rapid-Fail Protection. By default an App Pool is configured to become disabled if a worker in the pool crashes 5 times within a 5 minute span.
The thresholds of this setting are able to be modified by right clicking on the App Pool going to Advanced Settings and modifying the 'Rapid-Fail Protection' properties. However, this event indicates that there is likely a serious issue in your application that needs to be resolved.
I got tensed about this issue and finally i got solved.
Please make sure that the following option is correct in Advance Settings in Application pool.
Application Pools>Default Application Pool > Right click and select Advance Settings.
And then check whether the option "Enable 32 bit applications" has been set as "False". It should be False
I got solved by did the above change.
I Got this error when i installed URL Rewrite Module, install correct URL Rewrite Module to fix this.
To verify this error cause of URL Rewrite Module check events logs .
windows logs>> System>> Click on recent Error, In Error details
it will show "Application pool 'DefaultAppPool(or
YourApplicationpool)' is being automatically disabled due to a
series of failures in the process(es) serving that application
pool."
Windows logs>> Application>> click on recent error, In error
details it will show "The Module DLL
'C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\rewrite.dll' failed to load. the data
is the error."
I hope this will help You.
It's a registry permission issue. This should help:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/885654
You might also need to add read/write permissions for NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE (or NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM or the account used by your application pool) to c:\Windows\TEMP.
See http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winservergen/thread/176e9b6d-7b1b-4667-b55e-330bec133f37/

ASP.NET MVC why does my app keep restarting?

I have an ASP.NET MVC website that gets about 6500 hits a day, on a shared hosting platform at Server Intellect. I keep seeing app restarts in the logs and I cannot figure out why.
I've read Scott Gu's article here: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/12/14/433194.aspx
and implemented the technique, and here's what shows up in my log:
Application Shutdown:
_shutDownMessage=HostingEnvironment initiated shutdown
HostingEnvironment caused shutdown
_shutDownStack=at
System.Environment.GetStackTrace(Exception e, Boolean needFileInfo) at
System.Environment.get_StackTrace() at
System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.InitiateShutdownInternal() at
System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.InitiateShutdown() at
System.Web.Hosting.PipelineRuntime.StopProcessing()
It seems to occur about every five minutes.
Are there any other ways to debug this?
UPDATE: Here are the application pool settings mentioned by Softion:
CPU
Limit : 0
Limit Action : no action
Limit Interval : 5 Minutes
Process Model
Idle Timeout : 20 Minutes
Ping Maximum Response Time : 90 Seconds
Startup Time Limit : 90 Seconds
Rapid-Fail Protection
Enabled : True
Failure Interval : 5 Minutes
Recycling
Private Memory Limit : 100 MB
Regular Time Interval : 1740 Minutes (29 Hours)
Request Limit : 0
Specific Times : none
Virtual Memory Limit : 0
You can easily grab the reason of the shutdown by HostingEnvironment.
You read Scott Gu article, but you missed its comments.
var shutdownReason = HostingEnvironment.ShutdownReason;
If the reason is HostingEnvironment, check the IIS application pool parameters controlling recycling. I've put a red dot near each one. Check the description in the bottom help box in your own copy for full info.
You can ask your provider to give you the applicationHost.config file where all these parameters are set. They find it in C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config. I'm sure you can also get them using some .NET api.
For 6500 hits a day, which is a very low hit rate, i'm betting the "Idle time-out" is set to 5mn.
Update (moved comments to here //jgauffin)
CPU Limit 0 = disabled.
Process Model Idle Timeout : 20 Minutes (20mn without a request recycles your app).
Rapid-Fail Protection enabled (5mn). You need to know the maximum failures count. If your app throws more than this exception count in 5mn it will we recycled.
Private Memory Limit : 100 MB. Yes you should profile, this is a low limit.
Regular Time Interval : 1740 Minutes (29 Hours): it will recycle every 29h.
Request Limit : 0 (disabled).
Virtual Memory Limit : 0 (disabled).
Rapid-Fail Protection enabled (5mn). You need the maximum failures count. If your app throws more than this exception count in 5mn it recycles. If it recycles every 5mn this should be the thing to check. There should be 0 unhandled exception in secondary worker threads. Wrap your code into a try catch there.
re update:
The settings asked to the provider help, but is way better to ask for information on the reason of the restarts like I mentioned on my original answer i.e. the actual log entries of the restarts like I mentioned on my orig answer. From those you can know specifically what was triggered, I've seen happen one hitting different limits.
You really have to:
profile your application with a
realistic amount of test data
My money is on hitting resource limits set by your hosting provider.
Before going crazy with optimization without a target, contact your provider and ask them to give you information on the restarts.
Typical recycles:
idle x amount of time / like 15 mins
more than x amount of memory / like 200 MB
more than x % processor over y time / like 70 over 1 minute
a daily recycle
Once you know the case, you have to find out what's taking those resources. For this you have to profile your application with a realistic amount of test data. Knowing if it is memory or processor can help on knowing what to look for.
Is IIS set to recycle the app pool frequently?
Is there some kind of runaway memory leak in the app pool?
It requires a bit of know how on what your app does here's a list of things that can cause the app to restart/reset or even shut down
StackOverflowException
OutOfMemoryException
Any unhandled exception that crashes a thread
CodeContracts use Environment.FailFast when a contract violation occurs
Exceptions are quite easy to track if you can reproduce the issue with a debugger attached you can go into Visual Studio and enable all exceptions when they are thrown not caught by user code. It will sometimes reveal intresting stuff that otherwise is hidden away.

MSDeploy issues (WMSVC 500 error)

Having some issues with MSDeploy on a windows server 2008 box, the internal service is throwing a 500 error without putting anything in the server's event logs.
I'm attempting to setup automated deployments using MSBuild/TeamCity/MSDeploy, and this is basically the current halting point, has anyone come across this issue before?
Thanks, Ed
To find out why you are getting this error you should enable logging.
First, enable Failed Request Tracing for the web management service. You can see how to do this by referring to the "Optional: Set Up Tracing" section of this article:
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/984/configure-web-deploy/
The "frebs" can be found in:
C:\inetpub\logs\wmsvc\TracingLogFiles\W3SVC1
Open each of the frXXXXXX.xml files with IE and it'll use the freb.xsl transform to generate a nice report.
Don't delete freb.xsl when you're done, it doesn't always get recreated.
Then turn on logging for the web management service:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff729437(WS.10).aspx
You want to have the following registry entry configured:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\IIS Extensions\MSDeploy\1]
"EnabledTraceLevel"=dword:00000002
"EnabledTraceSources"=dword:000001ff
You can fiddle with the tracing levels/sources to increase and decrease the verbosity of the logs.
As per the article the management service logs are written to:
%WINDIR%\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\Temp\WMSvc.log

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