Manually stop / kill scheduled update while attempting to load into memory - spotfire

Can someone provide a command or way to kill / stop an analysis from loading into memory while it is being opened by the impersonator / scheduled updates user?
I've tried stopping the service, and closing the analysis through the administration console (http://server/SpotfireWeb/Administration/Diagnostics.aspx) but it will not allow it. It will only allow you to close an anlysis that is fully loaded. We are trying to kill an analysis which is taking a long time to load into memory.

Remove it from scheduled updates. Restart website from IIS panel.

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I have built an application that often runs overnight but sometimes windows decide to restart even though the program is still running. This is problematic for both me and some users for obvious reasons.
I cannot expect the users to manually select the update pause bottom, hence, I want the automatic restart to be disabled by the program while it is running. Is there a way to automate this?
To note; I'm running my application from a jupyter notebook which might be important.
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BlueSky Statistics Hanging

When I try to start BlueSky Statistics, sometimes the application hangs and the "Starting BlueSky Statistics" box remains on the screen. I see the app open in the background, but the loading box remains and I must use the task manager to be able to use anything.
BlueSky Statistics is hanging because you have 2 instances of the application running. You can have only 1 instance running at any time. Use the task manager to kill the extra instance.

How to track down what is stopping an application from closing

My .net application process will not stop running. I can use ANTS to profile it, but all examples talk about increasing memory and new instances. How do I find out what is preventing the application from exiting.
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Sharepoint W3WP.EXE Process Consuming 100% CPU - Corrective Action?

We have a Windows Server 2003 web server, and on that server runs about 5-6 top level Sharepoint sites, with a different application pool for each one.
There is one W3WP process that keeps pegging 100% for most of the day (happened yesterday and today) and it's connected (found by doing "Cscript iisapp.vbs" at the command line and matching ProcessID) to a particular Sharepoint site...which is nearly unusable.
What kind of corrective action can I take? These are the following ideas I had
1) Stopping and restarting the Web Site in IIS - For some reason this didn't stop the offending W3WP process??? Any ideas why not?
2) Stopping and restarting the associated Application Pool.
3) Recycling the associated Application Pool.
Any of those sound like the right idea? If not what are some good things to try? I can't do an iisreset since I don't want to alter service to the other, much more heavily used, Sharepoint sites.
If I truly NEED to do some diagnostic work please point me in the right direction. I'm not the Sharepoint admin guy (he's out of town so I'm filling in even though I'm just a developer) but I'll do my best.
If you need any information just let me know and I'll look it up (slowly though, as that one process is pegging the entire machine).
It's not an IISReset that you need. You have a piece of code that is running amok with your memory. Most likely it's not actually a CPU problem but a paging problem. I've encountered this a few times with data structures in memory that grow too large to page in/out effectively and eventually the attempt to page data just begins consuming everything. The steps I would recommend are:
1) Go get the IIS Debug Diagnostics tools. And learn how to use them.
2) If possible, remove the session state from InProc to a state server or a sql server (since this requires serialization of all classes that go into session this may not be possible). This will help alleviate some process related memory issues.
3) Go to your application pool and adjust the number of worker processes upward. Remove Rapid fail protection (this will allow the site to continue serving pages even if rapid catastrophic errors occur).
The IIS debug diagnostics will record a LOT of data, but you can specify specific "catch" alerts that will detect hangs, excessive cpu usage etc. It will capture gigs of data, so be ready for a long wait when attempting to view the logs.
Turns out someone tried to install some features that went haywire.
So he wrote a stsadm script to uninstall those features
Processor was still pegging.
I restarted the IIS Application Pool for that IIS process, didn't fix it.
So then I restarted IIS for that site and that resolved the processor issue.

Get sharepoint w3wp.exe process memory dump using the winDBG

I try to use the winDBG (adplus) to dump the w3wp process.
When I run this command adplus.vbs -hang -quiet -p ****, I found it create a folder with a big size file, and the size was growing. Then suddenly, the big size file disappeared and the process re-start again. Does anyone know about it?
Best Regards,
Yongwei,
Colin is right; in effect, you're racing against IIS as it is recylcing the application pool. As you're snapping your process snapshot, you're either hitting a memory-threshold for recycling, or health checks are perceiving the process to be hung and instituting a recycle (possibly due to ADPlus locking the process)
Here's how I would modify your application pool characteristics prior to attempting your next capture. You only need these changes in effect for as long as it takes to capture your dump:
Turn off memory-based recycling limits (physical and virtual)
Turn off the idle timeout limit (if it's on)
Disable both Pinging and Rapid Fail Protection
In effect: you need to turn off all of the features that try to keep your app pools running well. Capturing a memory snapshot takes time (as you know).
I would also recommend checking out ProcDump (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd996900.aspx) from the SysInternals guys. It was just released last month, and it makes process memory captures a bit easier. An article on using it to capture the W3WP is here: http://blogs.msdn.com/webtopics/archive/2009/08/08/using-procdump-exe-to-monitor-w3wp-exe-for-cpu-spikes.aspx
I hope this helps!
I can only imagine the memory usage of the w3wp process got to much which triggered an app pool recycle, which means restarting w3wp.

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