Configure Application Pool Performance In worker process isolation mode, Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 can be configured to optimize the performance of an application pool, allowing you optimize the performance of your Web applications. Some of the ways to accomplish this include configuring an application pool to limit the size of its request queue, enabling CPU monitoring to allow the server to take action when CPU usage exceeds maximum CPU use, configuring the server to shut down a worker process after being idle for a specified number of minutes, and creating a Web garden, which is an application pools with more than one worker process assigned. Setting these configurations helps you manage the resources on a Web server. Requirements
Recommendation As a security best practice, log on to your computer using an account that is not in the Administrators group, and then use the Run as command to run IIS Manager as an administrator. At the command prompt, type runas /user:administrative_accountname mmc %systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\iis.msc. Procedures When performance is degraded by too many requests or by problem applications, and you want to configure the application pool to improve the performance of the worker processes assigned to the pool, consider the following:
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