Questions tagged [application-pools]
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IIS, multiple CPU cores, application pools and worker processes - best configuration for a single site?
We use Kentico CMS and I've exchanged emails with them about a web garden deployment.
We have a single site running on a server with 8 cpu cores. In line with Kentico's advice, we have not altered the application pool web garden setting from the…
Egghead Design
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IIS NTFS Permissions are not working correctly
I'm trying to make my IIS server more secure and have locked down individual application folders so that only the relevant AppPool can access them. The AppPools have been given Read access but I have tried with read/write access too. I also moved…

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Modernising a traditional windows app environment
We're a Windows shop with 3-400 applications in our environment in a standard server/client configuration. We have 600+ Windows servers from 2003 to 2012, predominantly virtual with some physicals around.
I'm currently looking at different ways to…

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IIS 8.5 on Win 2012 R2: Changes for Application Pool identity does not reflect?
Running Win 2012 R2 and IIS 8.5.
When setting a custom identity to run a specific app pool (lets call it "App Pool 1") I get IMHO a really weird behavior.
When I click on App Pool 1 and then "Set Application Pool Defaults" > "Identity" > "Custom…

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Why does assigning read and execute permissions to IIS_IUSRS grant access to NETWORK SERVICE?
I have a Classic ASP site I'm trying to set up with Anonymous Authentication. Below is my current setup:
App pool Identity: NetworkService
Anonymous Authentication User: IUSR
Assigning read and execute permissions to the IUSR account and the…

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Is it possible to mix 32- and 64 bit application pools on IIS6
I have a 64 bit Windows Server 2003 with IIS6, on which I would like to run some 32 bit websites as well as a few websites, that should run 64 bit. I know how to configure my 64 bit IIS6 to run 32 bits, but this causes all the application pools to…

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How to find out why IIS application pool is recycling due to application pool property changes
My application pool is recycling when I don't want it to be (note I've already disabled the time-based & inactivity-based recycling).
I see in the event log a 5080 event:
The worker processes serving application pool '%1' are being recycled due…

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Will changing recycle times cause app pool to reset?
We have an app pool that is currently set to recycle at 1:30am and 5:30am. I would like to remove the 5:30am entry so that it only recycles once a day.
Will this update cause the application pool to reset when I make it?

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Are Application Pools Generally Larger In IIS 8.5 vs IIS 7.5?
We recently moved our websites from IIS 7.5 to IIS 8.5.
We did not change any of the code in the websites
The app pools are identical in configuration
We are running ~70 sites on this server
The old server had 6 gig of ram, dual 2.4 GHz…

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IIS Stopping/Starting Application Pool
My application pool seems to be in the "stop-pending" state and doesn't react on anything. Neither in the UI nor in the CLI.
Is there an option to force the application pool to stop or mock the stop-message without rebooting the service/server?…

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App pool stopping and not logging any error
We're having an issue in IIS on Windows Server 2012 R2 Core. Our IIS site has its own app pool which is set to run under the application pool identity. Almost immediately after startup when first accessing a page the app pool will stop.
I can…

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How to take memory dump when IIS Applicationpool recycles
Applicationpools in our production environment randomly recycle because it reached its private bytes memory limit (Event id 5117). The private memory limit is set to 1.6 gigabytes.
From time to time we get a Event id 5013 "A process serving…

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Can I give an application pool access to a remote share without an active directory domain?
I have an IIS application running on Server A. It needs the ability to write to a folder on a UNC share, currently on Server B. I would like to keep the share on Server B, but this environment does not have a Windows Active Directory domain -- up…

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Application pool is stopped when the site is on high traffic
Sorry if I am asking a silly question here.
We are having problem with one of our websites. Its application pool is stopped whenever the site has high traffic as we notice it always happens when the company send out EDM and the number of concurrent…

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Too many connections to SQL 2005
I have a situation where an application is over time opening a cumulative 6000 + connections to a 32 bit SQL2005 SP2 backend from a couple of app servers eventually causing internal memory pressure (dll unload from mem2leave area messages in log…

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