IIS Hanging

[oharab]

I have a small Windows 2000 server running 4 or 5 small websites. Well they started small, but now people from all over the force are using them.
2 of the sites are electronic forms written in ASP that update MS Access databases.
The problem is occasionally (twice yesterday, but a week before then) the server starts to time stuff out. It's looking like something isn't releasing it's connection as when I look on the server management thingy, there are hundreds of users connected.
Problem is, I don't know how to diagnose the problem. I can't even work out which site it is causing the problems. The only thing I know is DLLHost is massive & using lots of CPU and an IIR Reset fixes it.

Any thoughts on how to debug this?

Ben

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[ChrisHirst]

Isolate each of the sites by changing the Application protection (home directory tab) to High (Isolated) this will make each site run in it's own process (DLLHOST) and allow you to see which one is the rogue without killing the whole server.



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[ChrisHirst]

and have a look through forum41 for IIS.



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[oharab]

Is there any way of saying which DLLHost is linked to which site, or will it mean that the one causing the problem will hang, while the other one carries on as normal?

Ben

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[ChrisHirst]

you can have the task manager process list open as you are making the changes to the Pooling and note which PID dllhost is given each time, But yes only one will hang while the other sites will continue uninterrupted.


Not relevant here, but you should only isolate up to 10 sites on a webserver to prevent other performance issues.



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