One of my customers had a problem on his IIS server, where the IIS process hosting his web application was suffering from very high memory utilization over time. Eventually the process got so high in memory that the web application became completely unresponsive...

When there is more than 1 server in web farm scenario it is an obvious choice to go for session out-of-proc either with SQL server or State server. While storing session with SQLServer if you see issues with SQL deadlock during peak loads involving DeleteExpiredSessions...

Procdump is a light weight Sysinternal's command-line utility whose primary purpose is monitoring an application for CPU spikes and generating crash dumps during such spikes which an administrator or developer can use to determine the cause or to share...

In my previous post , I wrote about using FREB to troubleshoot a simple error message to identify the module which sets the error. For this post, let’s assume we are troubleshooting a slow running page (any page, be it aspx, asmx, html, etc). Not...