Intermittent Memory Leak Problem

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  1. Can someone offer some advice to me in regards to an intermittent problem my site is experiencing? Every so often, with variable frequency, the ASP/Database components lock up, and everything times out. What is happening is the service is restarting, and until it completes things are at a stand still. HTML pages work fine.

    This has been going on for some time, but the complaints are escalating and I need to try and resolve this.

    I have many ASP products on my site. I have no idea how I can troubleshoot this to identify the culprit causing the memory leak so I can address this accordingly. Is there some way I can determine that the memory is leaking when a certain page is accessed? I am not sure how it is possible for me to do this without actually being in front of the file server hosting my web site.

    Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated to help me restore my site to normal working order.

    Thanks.




    Regards,

    WM

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  2. Bruce

    Bruce DiscountASP.NET Staff

    this is one of the most difficult problem to troubleshoot.

    The 1st thing I suggest is to make sure you are running into memory leak problem or ASP/ADO lock up. They are completely different thing.

    The only way to troubleshoot this is to analyze the memory dump using IISState or other tools.

    Bruce

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  3. Thanks, Bruce.


    Is there any way I could obtain the memory dump so I could run an analysis on it? Or am I misunderstanding?


    You would think it would be easy to trace where a memory leak is coming from, but then Microsoft loves to create a challenge.


    Regards,

    WM

    Experience the Poconos - http://www.poconocommuter.com
     
  4. Bruce

    Bruce DiscountASP.NET Staff

    You can create a memory dump w/ IISStates tool.

    Just run it against the web server process.

    Bruce

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  5. Thanks, Bruce...can you tell me where I obtain this tool? Is it in the resource kit for 2003 Server, for example?


    Wayne
     
  6. Bruce

    Bruce DiscountASP.NET Staff

    comes w/ iis6 resource kit.

    a new version is also in beta now.

    Bruce

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