Hi

I just put up the chat on my website and after a while, with about 10-15 people in the lobby suddenly the server stops responding and in the end it gives server to busy.

Could it be that I need to configure the web.config(or machine.config) to handle more threads or could it be that IIS as a defense mechanism, thinking it's some sort of an attack, that it closes the AppDomain. All my other website that are running on a different AppDomain continue to response correctly.

What do you think?

Ingi

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Hi Terry

It's just my custom made system, running on win 2k3 and IIS 6. The traffic was about 80-100 hits per second on the website before I setup the chat but I didn't check what the traffic was when the chat was public. Normal RAM usage is 1.3gb but the system has 3gb. The processor runs most of the time in < 30% and peaks sometimes to 80% for 1 or 2 sec. When the chat was public the processor was the same.

The database is running on another machine but I have the chat and the website database in a different instance inside of the same SQL Server. When the website stopped responding all my other websites, running on different AppDomain but the same instance of website database, continued to work correctly.

When the chat was public we had about 10-15 people inside for about 5 minutes, then it started to crash. Alot of people were coming in and going out in that time, so the system was sending alot of join/disconnect messages. I closed the chat so that only I could get into it, and it seems to work as it should. Offcource I was the only one chatting :)

I will test it on my developer machine and see if I can create the same problem, that way I can have fun with all the config files, code, etc. and hopefully come up with some solution.

Can you think of any possible solution or a reason for this?

Ingi

Hi Terry

The web garden count is set to 1, I can't use my system at this moment with many web gardens.

I'm not sure if I can set the chat into a standalone process, because I need the session from the other process to log the user into the chat but I will try it.

I implemented the DataProviders to log in the users. It's a simple implementation

  public class CuteChatUserProvider : CuteSoft.Chat.UserAdapter {

        public override string GetUserUniqueName(System.Web.HttpContext Context)
        {
            if (Context.Session == null) return null;

            UserIdentity ui;
            if (Context.Session["UserIdentity"] == null) {
                ui = new UserIdentity();
            } else {
                ui = (UserIdentity) Context.Session["UserIdentity"];
            }
            return (ui.Principal.Role == Role.Guest) ? null : ui.Username;
        }

    }

This is the only method that does something, most of the other methods return strings or bool

Ingi