Hi, I am planning to use "pass thru" authentication mode of IIS 6.0 for my intranet website (asp.net 2.0 or above) I would like to know about performance issues (memory issues, network issues, etc..) or trap holes, caused due to use of shared folder. My environment would have multiple application...

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...