There is something strange with one of my servers (win2k, IIS5).
The IIS stops once every 24 hours...
In the System Log :
"The IIS Admin Service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this n times etc....."
followed by:
"The World Wide Web Publishing service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this n times etc....."

In the Application Log - nothing interesting.

There are about 100 websites hosted at the server. Thanks God, the server is monitored and the downtime was only about a minute... but what could be the reason ? Any insights ? How to find out the source ?

10X in advance !

By any chance you are running Nav 200x with auto protect enabled on the system , We had the same on our server and Nav was causing the IIS service to crash, dont know why, removed nav and all is fine,

regards
Manish kapadia

Thanks Manish, but Nav is not installed on the server... I have a customer (actually he is one of my friends) with more than 30 000 hits / day to an ISAPI application. I asked him to disable this application for one day and the server is stable and working just fine for more than 36 hours... Probably this caused the problem, but I'm not sure.

Cravis,

since you are using asp pages on your websites, try setting the Application Protection on your friends website to High (Isolated). This solves alot of the IIS crashes since ASP pages that aren't done correctly have memory leaks.

I hope it helps

Regards

Manish kapadia

MS has a file called iis5recycle it will restart IIS a # of diff ways by its self.. Like # of calls to IIS, So many hours, # of day, Hit's things like that..

It is very very helpful.. This may help the problem it seemed to help a lot of problems we had in IIS...


Here is a link to it. Just found it.. :) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=31106

Thanks !

Vortech, can you post here your current iis5recycle configuration (if not a secret :)) ?

Thanks in advance !

Here it is from top to bottom.

24 hours
100000 http Request
21000 Memery
2000 Queued

That is what i used for a server with just our site on it.. A server with 200 or more site i would move memery up to 50000 to 80000

Very easy to setup really set it to your needs of the server really play around with it to see what works best.. :)

Thanks! I will sleep better :)