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Does Recycling app pool clear session?
As an aside you should schedule any application pool recycles to occur during off-peak hours, as you’ve realised it will clear any active sessions and will break the user experience if the application relies on session storage.
How do I set up an application pool?
IIS 6
- Open the Internet Information Service Manager.
- Click + to open the tree view of the server.
- Choose Application Pool.
- From the menu, click Action > New > Application Pool.
- In the Application Pool ID field, type “OfficeScan”.
- Select Use Default Settings for New Application Pool and click OK.
What exactly does recycle app pool mean to the application?
The recycle process stands up an new AppPool process to service all new request for the application and closes down the old AppPool process once all of its requests have finished. If the old AppPool process does not have all of its requests finished within 90 seconds (by default) it will force the old process closed.
Why do we recycle our application pools?
Recycling an application pool is a good way to cause the reset of application state and any configuration cached by the IIS worker processes that does not get automatically refreshed (mostly global registry keys), without disrupting the operation of the server.
What does recycling the app pool actually do exactly?
Recycling means that the worker process that handles requests for that application pool is terminated and a new one is started. This is generally done to avoid unstable states that can lead to application crashes, hangs, or memory leaks.
Where to recycle pool?
Use the Plesk 9.x Control Panel to Recycle a Website’s Application Pool Log into your Control Panel. Click on Home on the top of the page. On the welcome screen, click on Domains. Under Additional Tools select IIS Application Pool. Select the Recycle button to recycle the application pool.