IIS7 Application Pool Crash - iis-7

I am running IIS 7.0 on Windows server 2008 R2 and created 1 Application Pool per site and I have 1 site which is causing the application pool to stop. These are the following errors in the Event Viewer:
This shows several times:
A process serving application pool 'Pilot.Mobile.SyncV2' terminated unexpectedly. The process id was '3620'. The process exit code was '0x80131506'.
Then I get this:
Application pool 'Pilot.Mobile.SyncV2' is being automatically disabled due to a series of failures in the process(es) serving that application pool.
Two Things- How can I findout why this is crashing e.g. tools or scritps, also has anyone get any scripts I can run on a schedule task that will check the application pools and if 1 is down it will restart it and email me.

Here's a list of "Useful tools and add-ons for IIS troubleshooting and IIS7".
Tess Ferrandez (ASP.NET Escalation Engineer at Microsoft) has a good blog on debugging.
I don't have any scripts to give you. We use Nagios/OpsView to monitor websites/servers and notify us.

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Websitepanel Application pool crashes

I am running on window 2012 R2 OS with IIS role installed on it. I have also installed websitepanel and add the websitepanel as a site in IIS.
I have created 3 Application pools for individual website :-
(1) Websitepanel Portal :- To run websitepanel.
(2) Websitepanel Enterprise Server
(3) Websitepanel Server
I have bind the application pool with all 3 websites. The problem is whenever i am going to start the websitpanel, the application pool of websitepanel crashes.
The browser gives the following error.
Service unavailable
Also IIS admin service not going to start. Asking me to search Event log.
I have checked my server usage and it is normal. I have 3 GB RAM and 35 GB diskspace on my server.
Can anyone help me in this regard.
Asking me to search Event log
Ok this is the answer here, search your event log on the server, and there you find a line that say and have the report of the error. Base on that report you can find your problem.
Relative answers:
How do I crash the App Pool?
Deploying website: 500 - Internal server error
Note
Your server running under almost the minimum ram and below the minimum hard disk !
System Requirements for Windows Server 2012 R2
Herrick,
I assume that, you owned server and have access to remote desktop OR IIS. You can try with following options to resolve your problelm:
1) Please enable 32 bit mode for all three application pools for WebsitePanel.
2) Increase private memory for application pools.
3) If you are running with fresh server then have a try with reinstallation of this application again.
Regards,

IIS application pool crashes several times a day

I have an application that has a application pool that shuts down a couple of times a day and I can't figure out why. the website is hosted on a VM with SQL Server R2. the version of IIS is 7 and the website has a dedicated application pool using .NET framework v4.0.30319.
At the application level the website is using a target framework of 4.5 and seems to run just fine for a 24-48 hour period and then for some reason the application pool just stops. We do have other .NET 4.5 applications running on this machine and their application pools do not have this problem. The only thing slightly different about this application is that we initiate a separate thread to send a order confirmation email when an order is completed. We average about a couple of hundred orders a day for this website.
According to the event log the error reported prior to the shutdown is
"A process serving application pool 'RetailSupport' suffered a fatal communication error with the Windows Process Activation Service"
Please help
I would check, if your code could hit under some circumstances an endless loop or a recursive
call of methods. This is often the reason for this error.
What always helps me in such cases is to add debug logs (e.g. log4net) in your case especially before the email is sent, status info about resources, etc. They can be more informative then the IIS logs.
If this does not help, check http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919789/en how to use the debug Diagnostic tool, to get more details for the error.
Look also for IIS: Web Application hangs periodically needs system reboot it could help you.
Also: what recycle strategy on IIS do you have?

Recycle and reload application pool on IIS7

Is there a way to recycle and afterwards reload an application pool?
My problem has been slow performance when logging in to my web application. I found out that the "Idle Time-out(minutes)" was sat to 20 by default. This caused the application to terminate when idle so that it can start up again on the next visit. After searching the web i found out that this value could be sat to 0 so it won't terminate. However, the first visit after recycling, an app pool have to create a new w3wp.exe worker process which is slow because the app pool needs to be created, ASP.NET or another framework needs to be loaded, and then the application needs to be loaded. Source right here
This means that every time the app recycles, the first visitor have to wait longer then the other visitors when logging in, doing some stuff and log out.
The web application is using the ISS from Dynamics AX 2009.
Sorry I thought you are working on IIS 7.5
But there was a beta for this in IIS7 actually.
I think you are looking something along the lines of this
A warmup module for IIS 7.5
"IIS Application Initialization for IIS 7.5 enables website administrators to improve the responsiveness of their Web sites by loading the Web applications before the first request arrives. By proactively loading and initializing all the dependencies such as database connections, compilation of ASP.NET code, and loading of modules, IT Professionals can ensure their Web sites are responsive at all times even if their Web sites use a custom request pipeline or if the Application Pool is recycled. While an application is being initialized, IIS can also be configured to return an alternate response such as static content as a placeholder or "splash page" until an application has completed its initialization tasks."
Download Link
http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/application-initialization
And also have a look at this; which basically talks about using warm up classes which comes with ASPNET 4
http://weblogs.asp.net/gunnarpeipman/archive/2010/01/31/asp-net-4-0-how-to-use-application-warm-up-class.aspx
Checkout the suspend option.
IIS now has
Idle Time-out Action : Suspend setting
Suspending is just freezes the process and it is much more efficient than the destroying the process. Because it uses the same process and does not create another one after waking up.

IIS 6.1 Server 2003 Web Apps Don't Startup on Reboot Sometimes

Occasionally when I reboot one of the servers at a client site the Web Apps running in IIS do not automatically start backup when the server is done rebooting. The IIS service starts up just fine, its set to Auto Start and there are no errors in the event log. Just none of the Web Apps are running, I have to click each one and click start. This only happens occasionally, as they usually start but its completely baffling.
Any thoughts? Its a mix of Classic ASP and ASP.NET applications. There are a total of 4 application pools running between around 8 web applications.
I have seen this happen when apps rely on a resource that is not yet available to the server, such as a network share.
Some people combat this problem by writing a Windows Service who's job is to check for such conditions and start the application.

Application Pools not starting after iisreset

Before I start, I know using iisreset is considered bad practice, but this shouldn't happen anyway..
What we have:
Several machines with IIS6 on Windows Server 2003 R2 (both 64 and 32 bits)
Several WCF webservices (.NET runtime 2.0) deployed in several applications, each with it's own application pool, each application pool running under an other windows account.
What happens:
All appPools are started, all services operational
IISReset is executed (or the machine is rebooted)
IIS comes back up, but not all application pools start properly. Sometimes they all come back up, sometimes one or more pools won't start. They can be started manually however.
Is this "normal" iis behavior and should I just avoid using iisreset, or are we doing something wrong in our .NET code?
The application pools should restart on an iisreset, but they do run outside of iis (in COM+) for reliability. This mean they may may not come back if the application is misbehaving, but IIS and the other apps will(should) come back. So yes, This is "normal".
P.S.
I would also like to "OUT" myself as a proud user of iisreset. Bad practice? Bah! ;D
IIS does not immediately start ASP.NET worker processes (w3wp.exe) until the first request comes in. When you say "not started", does it mean you attempt to access some WCF web services (after iisreset), and you get a Service Unavailable error because the appPool cannot be started? Do you see any IIS W3SVC related entries in the Event logs?
If there are, they may be able to clue you in why they cannot start; post them up here.
Reason:
IIS does not immediately start ASP.NET worker processes (w3wp.exe) until the first request comes in. When it says "not started" it mean you attempt to access some WCF web services (after iisreset) failed due to object was holding some space in memory, and you get a Service Unavailable error because the appPool cannot be started.
Workaround:
Create Batch file with following commands & schedule it.
net stop 23svc
net stop msftpsvc
net stop smtpsvc
net stop PleskControlPanel
net stop HTTPFilter
iisreset /restart
net start w3svc
net start msftpsvc
net start smtpsvc
net start PleskControlPanel
net Start HTTPFilter
Had similiar issue - after IIS has been restarted, DefaultAppPool was stopped.
In application event logs found an error:
Windows cannot log you on because your profile cannot be loaded. Check that you are connected to the network, or that your network is functioning correctly. If this problem persists, contact your network administrator.
DETAIL - Access is denied.
Fixed by setting in DefaultAppPool Advanced Settings option Load User Profile to False.
Hope it could be usefull.
In a prior support role, I managed several IIS servers running all kinds of .NET mess. When an AppPool failed to start, it was usually a bad login credential.
Re-setting the identity (auth credentials) via advanced settings of the Application pool worked for me.
Earlier I changed my active directory password and as the app pool was already running, it worked fine until I performed IISRESET.

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