title: Why am I losing sessions when running in StateServer mode?
body: <p>I have checked the servers (Win Server 2003) application event logs for the following problem <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308097" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308097</a> which doesn't show up. It just appears that sessions drop randomly for random users</p>
  
  <p>It's a single server setup, no web farms and no load balancing</p>
  
  <p>Even though the issue I point to above doesn't occur in the logs, is it worth increasing the stateNetworkTimeout attribute anyway? The configuration at the moment is simply</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;sessionState mode="StateServer" cookieless="false" stateConnectionString="tcpip=localhost:42424" timeout="60"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATES:</strong></p>
  
  <p>Using FormsAuth and the Timeout is set to 60</p>
  
  <p>IIS6 Settings</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Recycle worker processes (in minutes) = 120</li>
  <li>Recycle worker processes (number of requests) = 35000</li>
  <li>Recycle worker processes at the following times = Unchecked</li>
  <li>Maximum virtual memory = Unchecked</li>
  <li>Maximum used memory = Unchecked</li>
  <li>Shutdown worker processes after being idle = 90</li>
  <li>Limit the kernel request queue = 1500</li>
  <li>Everthing else = Unchecked</li>
  </ol>