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Metabase.xml is the central store where IIS 6.0 stores most of its configuration information. Its a plain text file and stores all the information in a simple XML format. The XML format naturally raised a notion of being able to XCOPY the config file...

We recently saw an issue that was manifesting as very high memory utilization by a w3wp.exe process that was hosting an ASP.net application. To start troubleshooting, we gathered a memory dump of the process when its memory usage was very high. ...