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Why high w3wp CPU usage causes your website to choke
High CPU usage in the IIS worker process can cause poor IIS website performance ... even if the processor is not completely overloaded.
This can lead to high CPU hangs, 503 queue full outages, and higher-than-needed cloud costs.
Learn why it happens and how to fix it in our High CPU usage in w3wp.exe guide.
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Lower cloud costs 2x with this IIS application pool recycling strategy
Reduce your cloud hosting costs 2x or more with a measured memory-based recycling strategy.
Check out our full guide to reduce IIS worker process memory usage with LeanSentry memory diagnostics.
For more tips on how to properly restart IIS websites with minimal production impact, check out our Restart IIS guide.
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10 precision commands to recycle IIS application pools
10 nifty commands I use to find and recycle specific IIS apppools, instead of hammering the server with an IISRESET. See the right way to recycle application pools at our Restarting IIS expert guide.
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Optimizing the IIS thread pool
Tune the IIS thread pool to improve website RPS, and resolve 503 Queue Full errors.
Check out the full guide at https://www.leansentry.com/guide/iis-aspnet-hangs/iis-thread-pool.
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How to improve IIS application pool availability
New guide. See how to configure your IIS application pool for maximum availability, despite recycling, startup delays, and cold start ...
The post How to improve IIS application pool availability appeared first on Mike Volodarsky's Blog.
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My first IIS guide: IISRESET, pool recycles, and site warmup
When I picked restarting IIS as the topic to dig into first, I thought this was kind of a random place to begin. Especially given how many other, seemingly more exciting things I will be talking about, including hangs, scalability, session state, async, and all the others. (To skip my rambling and go straight to ... [Read more...]
The post My first IIS guide: IISRESET, pool recycles, and site warmup appeared first on Mike Volodarsky's Blog.
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Getting back to writing about IIS
I am writing down everything I know from working with thousands of IIS websites over the last 10 years.
The post Getting back to writing about IIS appeared first on Mike Volodarsky's Blog.