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.NET MVC3, how to avoid session restart in 100 MB application pool

Posted on Monday, 27 June 2011 by nestor in How To

We recently had some problems with one our host servers, they set a limitation of 100 MB memory for dedicated application pools. While is understandable they set such a limit, problem is that limit is very low for .net mvc websites, since an empty website already needs 30 MB, so as soon as you add database and get traffic, it easy goes above 100 MB, causing the application pool to restart and session is lost having all your visitors logged out.

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