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