[RESOLVED] How to prevent web service restart?

[ntg]

I've created a web service using VS 2010 and .Net 3.5, deployed on Win7. No hiccups regarding performance or functionality. However, after adding performance counters I realized that the web service is restarted every few thousand calls (which happens after a few seconds).

The application pool has already been changed to not use recycling but this behavior persists. Anyone has any idea why this is happening?

[gep13]

Hello,

Just to confirm, you are saying that when the Performance Counters are not being used, the Web Service is not being restarted. Only when you add them?

Is that right?

Gary

[ntg]

When the application start event is fired up, I reset the counters to initial values (zeroes). After that, each subsequent web service call impacts the counters. One of the counters registers the number of web service calls and this counter is always increasing.

What I've discovered after incorporating counters is that the application start event is fired every few thousand calls. I saw this simply by watching the counter continuously climb to a value and then reset to zero. I didn't really expected this to happen so I didn't initially check for it, but after I watched the counters I confirmed it by looking at application logs and placing a break point at the application start event.

[ntg]

Found the problem, purely by luck.

I'm using Log4Net to write log files. The location of the log files was inside the web service directory structure (under ./bin/logs). When the location was changed and moved outside the web service application structure, the problem went away.

I've no idea why this happens though.

[gep13]

Wow, that is a weird one. Can't say that I have seen that before.

Glad to hear that you got the issue resolved though.

Gary