web config change and IIS restart

I changed the session timeout value in web.config file, but the changes were
not applied
to the new sessions until I restarted IIS.

Is this normal ?

Thanks.

I expected that the new user session will use the new value immediatelly.
P.S.Typically when you save the web.config and changes are detected by IIS it
will cause a application restart without any effort. However I don't know
what the time to do that is. Our servers here instantly detect the changes
and restart.

bill

<Trebor> wrote in message news:ukxHM61MEHA.1272@.tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> I changed the session timeout value in web.config file, but the changes
were
> not applied
> to the new sessions until I restarted IIS.
> Is this normal ?
>
> Thanks.
> I expected that the new user session will use the new value
immediatelly.
> P.S.