session timeout

[gg]

still can't figure this out.

I have timeout in web.config set to 480. That should be 8 hours, right?
Yet it still seems to be timing out after a short time, (perhaps the 20
minutes still). I've done a restart on IIS, but that has not helped.

What would cause an early timeout?

Thanks

 

[William LaMartin]

I had a problem with sessions timing out at sites hosted at a particular web
hosting company. They increased the virtual memory limit on their
application pools and the problem went away.

 

[Guest]

I also believe that the IIS option for Enable Session state (advanced area of
website) is an issue also. It's default is 20 minutes. I believe that you
need to change that also, someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Why it is setup this way I'm not sure.