From: Johan Karlsson on
Hi!

I've have an asp.net application that calls a backend service hosted in IIS
using WCF. I'm having some performance issues that seems to be related to
hitting the maximum number of connections.

My initial question is:

The Request Current counter in ASP.NET never drops to zero. It gets stuck at
a minimum of 1-4. When the counter goes up to about 19-20 the application
locks. It looks like its the backend service that locks up since other
applications get a timeout calling other methods.

Should the Request Current counter drop to zero or is it normal that it
stays at 1-4?

Thanks
// Johan

From: Mr. Arnold on


"Johan Karlsson" wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I've have an asp.net application that calls a backend service hosted in IIS
> using WCF. I'm having some performance issues that seems to be related to
> hitting the maximum number of connections.

The max number of concurrent connection to a WCF Web service is 5.

>
> My initial question is:
>
> The Request Current counter in ASP.NET never drops to zero. It gets stuck at
> a minimum of 1-4. When the counter goes up to about 19-20 the application
> locks. It looks like its the backend service that locks up since other
> applications get a timeout calling other methods.

Maybe, the WCF service aborted and the WCF client is not closing the
connection due to the abort, which is leaving the connection open.

>
> Should the Request Current counter drop to zero or is it normal that it
> stays at 1-4?
>

You have 5 concurrent connections that can be used at any given time with a
WCF Web service. If the connection is not being closed properly by the
client, then you'll if the 5 concurrent connections pretty fast.

From: Johan Karlsson on
Hi!

Thanks for you reply!

Is there a way to change the number of concurrent connections? Five seems
kinda limited for a large number of users.

It still don't explain the Request Current counter in ASP.NET. It can be as
high as 19 before the app freezes up.

// Johan

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>
>
> "Johan Karlsson" wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I've have an asp.net application that calls a backend service hosted in
>> IIS
>> using WCF. I'm having some performance issues that seems to be related to
>> hitting the maximum number of connections.
>
> The max number of concurrent connection to a WCF Web service is 5.
>
>>
>> My initial question is:
>>
>> The Request Current counter in ASP.NET never drops to zero. It gets stuck
>> at
>> a minimum of 1-4. When the counter goes up to about 19-20 the application
>> locks. It looks like its the backend service that locks up since other
>> applications get a timeout calling other methods.
>
> Maybe, the WCF service aborted and the WCF client is not closing the
> connection due to the abort, which is leaving the connection open.
>
>>
>> Should the Request Current counter drop to zero or is it normal that it
>> stays at 1-4?
>>
>
> You have 5 concurrent connections that can be used at any given time with
> a
> WCF Web service. If the connection is not being closed properly by the
> client, then you'll if the 5 concurrent connections pretty fast.
>
From: Allen Chen [MSFT] on
Hi Johan,

>I've have an asp.net application that calls a backend service hosted in
IIS
>using WCF. I'm having some performance issues that seems to be related to
>hitting the maximum number of connections.

>My initial question is:

>The Request Current counter in ASP.NET never drops to zero. It gets stuck
at
>a minimum of 1-4. When the counter goes up to about 19-20 the application
>locks. It looks like its the backend service that locks up since other
>applications get a timeout calling other methods.

>Should the Request Current counter drop to zero or is it normal that it
>stays at 1-4?

You may set some WCF serviceThrottling settings to see whether it works:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731379.aspx

As to the Request Current counter it's normal that it's not zero however
since you said the application locks definitely something is wrong.

Please let me know whether the serviceThrottling can resolve this issue.

Regards,
Allen Chen
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From: Allen Chen [MSFT] on
Hi Johan,

>I've have an asp.net application that calls a backend service hosted in
IIS
>using WCF. I'm having some performance issues that seems to be related to
>hitting the maximum number of connections.

>My initial question is:

>The Request Current counter in ASP.NET never drops to zero. It gets stuck
at
>a minimum of 1-4. When the counter goes up to about 19-20 the application
>locks. It looks like its the backend service that locks up since other
>applications get a timeout calling other methods.

>Should the Request Current counter drop to zero or is it normal that it
>stays at 1-4?

Do you have any progress on this issue?

Regards,
Allen Chen
Microsoft Online Support