Override session timeout

[lekshmi]

In my machine.config file, httpRuntime
executionTimeout="90".
and it dosent have <location> attribute nad
<allowOverride> attribute.
But my thread dies off after 1hr.
In the web.config, i have given httpRuntime
executionTimeout="7200"

Why is this happening?

 

[Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]]

You want to use the Session settings instead:

<sessionState>

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...us/cpgenref/html/gngrfsessionstatesection.asp

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

The httpRuntime executionTimeout attribute is expressed
in seconds, so it can hardly have an effect for the session
setting you want.

You could be creating a performance bottleneck
by specifying 7200 for httpRuntime executionTimeout,
since that's the "choke" time for a request which isn't
being completed.

Set it back to 90.

The web.config value you need to set, if you need 2 hours
duration for your sessions, is the sessionState timeout :

<sessionState timeout="120" />

Be forewarned that this setting ( 120 minute session-length )
will require quite a bit more memory resources than the
20 minute default setting.