Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding. The statement has been terminated

Question

I have many users on my web site (20000-60000 per day), which is a download site for mobile files. I have remote access to my server (windows server 2008-R2).
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Answer 1

We've had hard times on Timeout expired/max pool reached Sqlexception. As a workarround and to prevent restarting the server or the service we modify the MAX SERVER MEMORY variable in SQL Server (either through SQL Managment Studio or T-SQL):

DECLARE @maxMem INT = 3000 --Max. memory for SQL Server instance in MB
EXEC sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1
RECONFIGURE

This temporarily fixes the issue until it happens again. In our case we suspect that it has to do with connection leaks at app level.