Windows 2003 - Service Unavailable

[rash]

Hi,

I often receive the service unavailable error when accessing my website. This usually happens every 2 days. I suppose this might be happening due to the server up time. When I checked the event log, I found a error something like this:

A process processing serving the application pool () terminated unexpectedly.

One solution I figured was to reboot the server everyday at a specific time (usually during low traffic period). The reboot usually takes max 1 minute.

Now, my question is, can I automate the reboot process in anyway that won't cause this problem? Or is there a better way to tackle this. Yes, I also tried increasing the IIS 6 Webgarden worker processes from 1 to 2. Don't know whether that would help in the long run.

Any inputs on the issues would be highly appreciated. Thanks

[carguy84]

I would probably just cycle w3svc with a bat file instead of a full reboot - that is until I figured out what was wrong with the server. Cycling w3svc will take seconds to do.

[rash]

Hi carguy84, thanks for your reply. Recycling w3svc is a nice idea. What I did was decreased its recycling delay by reducing the recycle after variable to a lower number.