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August 2009 - Posts

High memory in IIS due to scriptproxy.dll
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 Read More...
Deadlock when storing Asp.net sessions in SQL server during peak load
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 Read More...
Using ProcDump.exe to monitor w3wp.exe for CPU spikes
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 Read More...
IIS7 (and above) – Using FREB to capture dumps for a long running request
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 always Read More...
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