ASP.NET TimeOut expired on: Membership.ValidateUser(username, password)

Question

The same copy of my asp.net web application running on another server keeps throwing this error every now and then:

Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool. This may have occurred because all pooled connections were in use and max pool size was reached.

The error occurs on the following line 67

Line 65: 
Line 66:         //determine if the user's username/password are valid
Line 67:         if (Membership.ValidateUser(userName, password))
Line 68:         {
Line 69:             userInfo = MembersDB.GetMemberByUserName(Login1.UserName);

Has anyone ever had this happen?

Also, it may be important to note that I have this very web application running on another server with more users but I don't have this Connection Pool issue

Answer 1

Did anyone solve this? got the same problem... Strange.. Restated the SQL service and it works for now... But there is som strange issue with the Membership for sure...

Answer 2

I think that simply raising the maximum connection pool size should solve your problem, like so:

Data Source=Server;Initial Catalog=TestDB;User ID=TestUser;Max Pool Size=300