Microsoft KB Archive/165808

= FIX: Creating/Deleting Web Projects Results in IIS Hanging =

Article ID: 165808

Article Last Modified on 5/2/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual InterDev 1.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q165808



SYMPTOMS
The available virtual memory on a Web server running Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) and the FrontPage 97 server extenders decreases over time as Web projects are created and deleted through Visual InterDev. When the server runs out of virtual memory, Microsoft IIS (Inetinfo.exe) may terminate or hang during the creation or deletion of a Web project.



CAUSE
If the Microsoft Internet Information Server process terminates abnormally (crashes), this could be due to a low virtual memory condition caused by a memory leak in the FrontPage 97 Server extensions. This memory leak was fixed with the FrontPage 98 Server extensions.



RESOLUTION
Virtual memory can be released by stopping all Microsoft IIS services (WWW, FTP, and GOPHER) and restarting them.



STATUS
This problem has been addressed with the FrontPage 98 Server Extensions (or newer). The FrontPage 98 Server Extensions can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/wpp/default.htm.

