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lsass.exe and w3wp.exe: Analyzing SSL performance in IIS 6.0
In several of the performance tuning projects I have done, the web pages with security settings such as SSL or Windows authentication are generally slow compared to other pages. In this post, I analyze how SSL performance can be monitored in IIS 6.0 As Read More...
Application Pool Properties– Worker Process Idle Time Shut down setting
From my past experience I have learned that most of the project teams are not aware of App Pool properties of IIS. They tend to rely on the default values of App Pool. Even though the default values are chosen to give better performance in general, the Read More...
Web server deadlocks - aspnet_isapi.dll
There are various reasons for a deadlock can occur on the web server. In this blog post, I would be pointing out the various ways to resolve aspnet_isapi.dll related deadlocks on web server. If the deadlock has occurred on the web server, you should notice Read More...
Effect of earth’s rotation on IIS logs
I was amazed when I observed “UTC” time tag associated with IIS logs. In this blog post, I would be explaining what UTC time is, how it is different from GMT, how it is been used in IIS logs and the difference it makes. Being physics enthusiastic, it Read More...
Monitoring w3wp.exe Process (www worker process)
One of the important process that you need to monitor while doing Performance testing is w3wp.exe process. It is an IIS related process and runs whenever IIS is configured in Worker Process Isolation mode. By default, IIS runs in Worker process Isolation Read More...
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