Maintenance Routine Runs Too Often

[drollins]

I am running PLATFORM: ASP.NET, VERSION: 7.0.0, BUILD: 11659

My maintenance routine runs excessively often - see below log - is there a patch or is there something I can do to limit how often this runs?

It also seems to expire the same 5 expired merchant accounts over and over again.

My ablecommerce.config file is set to 360 -
<application enableRewrite="true" connectionStringName="" maintenanceInterval="360" viewStateWarning="0" readOnlyInstance="false">

Log
INFO 2011-02-09 13:39:35,481 280ms Object a - App Started: 2/9/2011 1:39:35 PM
INFO 2011-02-09 13:39:35,512 312ms Object a - Total Memory: 46002936
INFO 2011-02-09 13:39:36,261 1060ms Object a - Running maintenance routines
INFO 2011-02-09 13:39:36,261 1060ms Object a - Running maintenance routines
INFO 2011-02-09 13:39:36,370 1170ms Object a - User maintenance disabled 5 expired merchant accounts.
INFO 2011-02-09 13:39:36,370 1170ms Object a - User maintenance disabled 5 expired merchant accounts.
INFO 2011-02-09 13:39:36,729 1528ms Object a - Maintenance routines complete
INFO 2011-02-09 13:39:36,744 1544ms Object a - Maintenance routines complete
INFO 2011-02-09 14:07:32,173 327ms Object a - App Started: 2/9/2011 2:07:31 PM
INFO 2011-02-09 14:07:32,204 358ms Object a - Total Memory: 4131648
INFO 2011-02-09 14:07:32,953 1107ms Object a - Running maintenance routines
INFO 2011-02-09 14:07:33,078 1232ms Object a - User maintenance disabled 5 expired merchant accounts.
INFO 2011-02-09 14:07:33,452 1606ms Object a - Maintenance routines complete
INFO 2011-02-09 14:18:11,925 640079ms Object a - Running maintenance routines
INFO 2011-02-09 14:18:12,034 640188ms Object a - User maintenance disabled 5 expired merchant accounts.
INFO 2011-02-09 14:18:12,283 640438ms Object a - Running maintenance routines
INFO 2011-02-09 14:18:12,330 640485ms Object a - User maintenance disabled 5 expired merchant accounts.
INFO 2011-02-09 14:18:12,377 640531ms Object a - Running maintenance routines
INFO 2011-02-09 14:18:12,393 640547ms Object a - User maintenance disabled 5 expired merchant accounts.
INFO 2011-02-09 14:18:12,439 640594ms Object a - Maintenance routines complete
INFO 2011-02-09 14:18:12,518 640672ms Object a - Maintenance routines complete
INFO 2011-02-09 14:18:12,580 640734ms Object a - Maintenance routines complete
INFO 2011-02-09 14:18:12,705 640859ms Object a - Running maintenance routines
INFO 2011-02-09 14:18:12,705 640859ms Object a - User maintenance disabled 5 expired merchant accounts.
INFO 2011-02-09 14:18:12,736 640890ms Object a - Maintenance routines complete

[drollins]

Of course it runs over and over again... I concerned with the frequency.

Let me rephrase - the routine is not adhering to the 360 maintenance interval which I understand to be a "minute" unit of measure. So correct me if I am wrong but wouldn't that mean that this maintenance routine should only kick off every 6 hours or so?

I am experiencing this routine running every 15 minutes.

[mazhar]

I think routine gets started upon application start up and then will continue to clean resource after specified time. So if application is running next cleanup will start after 6hours. ASP.NET applications can be stopped by server if it sees no active request for website to save resources. Maybe this is happening in your case where upon each application start up routine is trying to initialize and clear things. Try by doing a test like make sure that for 30 minutes or so you keep pinging the website. Then see what is in log. Does it still reflects same 15 minutes period.