I have a webservice running which takes quit a long time to process due to complex queries to the database. It's a given the request can take up to 30-40 seconds before it returns a response. Under a high load the cpu goes up to 100% (hogged solely by w3wp.exe) and won't come back down even when...

Dear, While doing stress testing, I am receiving HTTP error 504. Its literal meaning suggest that it is "Gateway Time out" error. I am not quite sure whether it is networking issue or am I maxing out my worker process thread limits. I am running IIS 6 with ASP.Net 2.0 and all process model...