recycling Element for applicationPoolDefaults for applicationPools [IIS Settings Schema]

Note

For more information about the recycling element, see the following topic on the Microsoft IIS.net Web site: Recycling Settings for an Application Pool <recycling>.

Configures default recycling settings for all application pools on a server.

Syntax

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements for this section.

Attributes

Attribute	Description
disallowOverlappingRotation	Optional Boolean attribute. Specifies whether the WWW Service should start another worker process to replace the existing worker process while that process is shutting down. The value of this property should be set to true if the worker process loads any application code that does not support multiple worker processes. The default value is false.
disallowRotationOnConfigChange	Optional Boolean attribute. Specifies whether the WWW Service should rotate worker processes in an application pool when the configuration has changed. The default value is false.
logEventOnRecycle	Optional flags attribute. Specifies that IIS should log an event when an application pool is recycled. The logEventOnRecycle property must have a bit set corresponding to the reason for the recycle if IIS is to log the event. The logEventOnRecycle attribute can be one or more of the following possible values. If you specify more than one value, separate them with a comma (,). The default values are Time, Memory, and PrivateMemory. Value Description ConfigChange Log an event when an application pool recycles because of a configuration change. The numeric value is 64. IsapiUnhealthy Log an event when an application pool recycles after an ISAPI extension reports to the worker process that it is in an unhealthy state. The numeric value is 16. Memory Log an event when an application pool recycles after it uses a specified amount of virtual memory. The numeric value is 8. OnDemand Log an event when an application pool is recycled immediately to correct a problem. The numeric value is 32. PrivateMemory Log an event when an application pool recycles after it uses a specified amount of virtual memory. The numeric value is 128. Requests Log an event when an application pool recycles after it reaches a configured number of requests. The numeric value is 2. Schedule Log an event when an application pool recycles after it reaches a configured time of day. The numeric value is 4. Time Log an event when an application pool recycles after a configured time. The numeric value is 1.

Child Elements

Element	Description
periodicRestart	Optional element. Specifies settings for application pool recycling.

Parent Elements

Element	Description
configuration	Specifies the root element in every configuration file that is used by IIS 7.
system.applicationHost	Specifies the root element for configuring Web process settings.
applicationPools	Specifies the root element for the configuration for all application pools on a server.
applicationPoolDefaults	Specifies default settings for all application pools on a server.

Remarks

For more information about the recycling element, see the following topic on the Microsoft IIS.net Web site: Recycling Settings for an Application Pool <recycling>.

Element Information

Configuration locations	ApplicationHost.config
Requirements	Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 7.0

See Also

Reference

periodicRestart Element for recycling for applicationPoolDefaults [IIS Settings Schema]