Worker Process bombing

[markrawlingson]

Hey guys,

I'm in need of some serious assistance here.

The worker process on a web site I am developing is bombing constantly (something like 10 times within 1 hour last night) I noticed this over the weekend when I was trying to develop something that uses sessions and the session information kept disappearing.. then our ADO constants started screwing up. I looked at the event viewer and there are the following messages frequently appearing:

Faulting application w3wp.exe, version 6.0.3790.3959, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 5.2.3790.3959, fault address 0x0004afb2.

I've been reading up on it but I'm totally lost - I'm not what you'd call a system admin!

Would someone be so kind as to walk me through the troubleshooting here??

Thanks!

Sincerely,
Mark

[kenobewan]

Suggest you remove what you were developing. Here is an article that may help:
HOWTO: Understand and Diagnose an Application Pool Crash

Ideally you should have three environments, but at the very least have a separate dev/test box with same platform. Saves hours of tears and frustrations.