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Too many instances on startup
Gravatar is a globally recognized avatar based on your email address. Too many instances on startup
  Michael Hogan (Ideate Hosting)
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  Mar 17, 2025 @ 08:19am

Occasionally when a server instance reboots, WebConnect starts more than the specified number of instances and keeps 'orphaned' instances alive rather than shutting them down. I'm not sure if it's just the added machine load during startup, or perhaps I have an .ini or .web setting set too low. Maybe the PollTime ???

I do monitor them and I can remote in to kill the extra instances when alerted but I'd rather not have to worry about it after a Windows update is applied to the server.

Suggestions?

Gravatar is a globally recognized avatar based on your email address. re: Too many instances on startup
  Richard Kaye
  Michael Hogan (Ideate Hosting)
  Mar 17, 2025 @ 09:11am

What version of WWC are you using? Rick made a lot of excellent changes to instance management in 8.x and this sounds like a 7.x or earlier thing.

Gravatar is a globally recognized avatar based on your email address. re: Too many instances on startup
  Michael Hogan (Ideate Hosting)
  Richard Kaye
  Mar 17, 2025 @ 10:59am

This customer is using Web Connection Server Version 25.2.4, according to the admin page.

Gravatar is a globally recognized avatar based on your email address. re: Too many instances on startup
  Richard Kaye
  Michael Hogan (Ideate Hosting)
  Mar 17, 2025 @ 11:08am

Tha's not any version I'm aware of but Rick will know better. For example, here's my version info from my admin page:

Gravatar is a globally recognized avatar based on your email address. re: Too many instances on startup
  Michael Hogan (Ideate Hosting)
  Richard Kaye
  Mar 17, 2025 @ 11:47am

Yes - I see. That must be the 'DLL Version'. In my customer's case, that is: 6.21 (.NET Handler)

Gravatar is a globally recognized avatar based on your email address. re: Too many instances on startup
  Rick Strahl
  Michael Hogan (Ideate Hosting)
  Mar 17, 2025 @ 04:06pm

As Richard has stated, there have been major improvements in v8 that better handle orphaned instances. If that is a concern the upgrade is definitely going to help...

Upgrade from 6.x should be pretty painless, unless you're using Web Control Framework in which case a few startup changes are required.

+++ Rick ---

Gravatar is a globally recognized avatar based on your email address. re: Too many instances on startup
  Michael Hogan (Ideate Hosting)
  Rick Strahl
  Mar 20, 2025 @ 04:03am

Perfect - thanks. I'll pass that on.

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