Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS) - Collecting dumps of the worker process (w3wp.exe) automatically whenever a request takes a long time

Websites being slow is perhaps the most common problem every website administrator, and developers run into. If they are extremely unlucky, then see this problem only in their production environment. Many troubleshooting techniques, best practices are available for this scenario. I will try to cover them in a different post as a part of my ASP.NET Troubleshooting series some other time. Meanwhile, you can try looking at this post of mine, where I’ve something that might help you.

For now, let’s focus on Windows Azure Web Sites. As you know this is a closed (well, not completely) hosting environment, and still there are a few things that you can do for this problem – for example, you can try collecting FREB traces for a long running request, and see where it is stuck.

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