Asp.net IIS6 – application pool recycle

asp.netiis-6windows-server-2003

I'm running an ASP.NET website on Windows 2003 IIS 6.0

Every 24-28 hours I'm getting the following error:

When the error occurrs all users are disconnected from the website.

Event Type: Warning
Event Source:   W3SVC
Event Category: None
Event ID:   1013
Date:       02/02/2010
Time:       19:29:38
User:       N/A

A process serving application pool 'DefaultAppPool' exceeded time limits during 
shut down. The process id was '1660'. 

For more information, see Help and Support Center at   
   http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Any idea what does the error means?

Is this related to application pool recycle?

If so, is it a "must" to recycle the IIS app pool?

Best Answer

Yep this is IIS running a clean up, and recycling the app pool. you can change how this works by changing the setting on the applicationn pool..

IIS 6 Configuring Worker Processes for Recycling

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