title: IIS Session hangs - How to resolve "website leaking resources to the finalizers"?
body: <p>I am experiencing the exact same issue as a user reports on eggheadcafe, but don't know what steps to take after reading the following answer.:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Two problems you should chase down:
    1. Why is the website leaking resources to the finalizers. That is
    bad
    2. What is Oracle code waiting on -- work with Oracle's support on it</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>This is the issue:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>I have an intermittent problem with a
    web site hosted on IIS6 (w2k3 sp2).</p>
    
    <p>I appears to occur randomly to users
    when they click on a hyperlink within
    a page.   The request is sent to the
    web server but a response is never
    returned.  If the user tries to
    navigate to another hyperlink they are
    not able to (i.e. the web site appears
    to hang for that user).   Other users
    of the website at the time are not
    affected by this hang and if the user
    with the problem opens a new http
    session (closing IE and opening the
    web site again) they no longer
    experience the hang.</p>
    
    <p>I've placed a debugger (IISState) on
    the w3wp process with the following
    output.   Entries with "Thread is
    waiting for a lock to be released. 
    Looking for lock owner." look like
    they might be causing the issue.   Can
    anyone tell what lock the process is
    waiting on?</p>
    
    <p>Thanks</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/33799697/session-hangs.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/33799697/session-hangs.aspx</a></p>
  
  <p>In my case my .Net C# MVC application runs against a MySQL database for data and a MS SQL database for .Net membership.</p>
  
  <p>I hope someone with more knowledge of IIS can help resolve this problem. </p>