Tag Archives: Session state

Sitecore high CPU usage – is the SQL Session State Provider the villain?

Posted on November 25, 2021 by briancaos

My massive Sitecore 9.1 installation started having CPU spikes, even when the servers did not seem to receive more requests. When CPU spiked, I could see that the requests queue would build up, until it crashed with the following error: … Continue reading →

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Your session ID is being reused and there is nothing you can do about it

Posted on March 8, 2019 by briancaos

In many years we have been used to the fact that the ASP.Net session ID uniquely identifies one session, and one session only. Back in 2006, Margaret Rouse from TechTarget even wrote in the definition of a session ID that: … Continue reading →

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.NET Session state is not thread safe

Posted on September 22, 2017 by briancaos

When working with the .NET session state you should bear in mind that the HttpContext.Current.Session cannot be transferred to another thread. Imagine that you, from the Global.asax would like to read the SessionID each time a session is started: To … Continue reading →

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Unable to serialize the session state. In ‘StateServer’ and ‘SQLServer’ mode

Posted on March 7, 2014 by briancaos

When switching the sessionState mode of your web project from InProc to SQLServer you might encounter this error: Exception: System.Web.HttpException Message: Unable to serialize the session state. In ‘StateServer’ and ‘SQLServer’ mode, ASP.NET will serialize the session state objects, and … Continue reading →

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