Hi folks,
I am starting to write a performance tweaking guide for IIS 6.0 (I have not used IIS 7 enough yet and it is not in the enterprise much atm).
I am a contractor and mostly now-a-days (for the past 7 years) I do IIS web support /architect stuff and this has prompted me to write a performance tweaking guide as I am doing performance review off my own back in my latest role and it will be a useful
checklist for thing in a new role.
I found that often the information is all over the place in different MS documentation, blogs, articles, etc and that often they would shy away from placing values in them. Although obviously you should not change the metabase or registry for major changes
without doing performance reviews, etc it is nice to have some guidelines of what to expect.
(I intend increasing this to include detailed monitoring, how to do benchmarking in conjection with this, security, etc for IIS, also one for SQL performance tuning in a web environment and hopefully how to debug IIS hangs and crashes)
Anyway I have slowly got something together and note a few things.
a) It is not finished yet.
b) See a)
c) It was written initially for a large intranet infrastructure I am working in atm so some specific may remain. I will remove these to more general terms (and I probably have some sentences in there that make little sense….sorry)
d) The grammar and spelling are probably off. I will go through this in more detail later.
e) Some of the technical detail may even be off. So please feel free to suggestion corrections.
f) There are things missing some of them obvious. If they are doing best practice where I am I have not written about it so there is more to add. Also things no things like PHP as they have no PHP.
g) I apologies as I am working away atm and I cannot upload this to my website so it is a cut and paste job. :( It will be uploaded later.
Any I would like as much feedback as possible and when it is finished hopefully I will publish it somewhere.
Let me know what you think
John
IIS 6.0 performance tweak guide (draft)
Standard Resource Toolkits on the servers
The basic installation of IIS doesn’t come with many useful tools for administration.
Consider installing the following additional software that should be installed on all web servers:
Microsoft IIS Resource Kit
Microsoft IIS Diagnostic Toolkit (and download the latest versions of the apps that come with these kits e.g. DebugDiag, LogParser)
A better text editor than standard notepad like notepad++
Standardise the build of the servers so they are basically the same.
Hosts
It is useful to be able to access the sites on your server from the server. This is useful for many reasons detailed error messages, traffic flow through the infrastructure so you know you are on the correct machine, etc.
Many production environments there may be firewalls and policies in place to stop you doing this if possible you should try and obtain this.
It may be as simple as trusting your own sites in Internet Explorer so they are allowed through hard admin
Often in farm environments it is useful to know the actual server that they you are on.
You could have many servers and the hardware load balancer that controls what traffic comes to which server sometimes isn’t helpful.
In this case it may be may be useful set up additional host headers and host files references on the production servers in the farms so you can directly access that specific server from its browser.
Make sure all the web farms files are in synch
Nightly checks of the webfarm files to make sure they are all in synch with each other.
We can script this for all the files or schedule tasks with a package like windiff to ensure they are all in synch. Send out mail alerts if they are found to be out of synch.
Additionally we can modify this so we can work out if staging is in synch with the production server farm. Obviously there will be some changes between the web configuration files but it is still a useful maintenance technique.
Also check these with the disaster recovery servers to ensure they are all in synch.
Checking the details of each websites config files (e.g. web.config, etc) and each server metabase file of the farm is also very useful. Obviously these things shouldn’t change but it would be useful to know if they did.
Luckily, Microsoft are in the process of writing an app for this and other purposes.
Web Deployment Tool (currently in a useable tech preview stage) has been designed for IIS7 and for migration from IIS6. But it also features a useful looking comparison tool to compare the states of multiple IIS6 servers.
By default an application pool has a recycle period of 1740 minutes or 29 hours. This is a ludicrous setting as it will be recycling application pools in peak times.
Much better is to recycle the application pools at fixed off peak times. For example - 1:00am.
For servers in farm environments stagger these recycle times so they are not all the same. E.g. Server A – 1:00am, Server B – 1:10am, Server C – 1:20am, etc
Additionally you can log when the app pools recycle. There are many reasons for a recycle and by default these are not recorded in the event viewer (very little is recorded by default for us admins). It is useful to have this for all events that occur.
cscript adsutil.vbs Set w3svc/AppPools/DefaultAppPool/LogEventOnRecycle 255
HTTP Compression
This can be especially useful for static web content as the compression only has to be done the once and then cached. Dynamic content is compressed on the fly and not cached.
One of the main areas of usefulness of compression is the saving of the network traffic and thus a potential reduction for your hosting bills.
Although HTTP compression was previously more useful where there was less broadband and more dialup in years gone by. In today modern environment it is still a useful tool and should not overlooked. Increasingly people are also using mobile, wireless, etc
in greater numbers and these will benefit much more with compression.
One of the previous downsides to HTTP compression years ago was that browsers did not support the HTTP 1.1 standards for this but from, I think IE5.5, they have been setting this ‘on’ as default.
(The benefits of an Intranet environment is that, in general, you have fewer multiple browsers to be concerned about as you are likely to know what company standard browsers are.)
Obviously static previously uncompressed content like HTML pages can benefit a lot from compression.
Although on an intranet the rewards of compression of web content should more than make up for small CPU overhead of producing the compression in the first place.
The server is not local and is in Ireland so people connecting to the UK intranet will benefit from the reduced amount of traffic. For quickly produced pages on the website the main area of slowdown for the user will the time it take to receive the pages
across the network.
For the infrastructure here you will probably be saving 30% in network traffic overall (plain text files; HTML, ASP, JS, etc (we can configure in the metabase what files we want to compress beyond the default ones) will benefit from 50-60% size reductions
for compression, jpegs, and other already compressed formats do not get compressed by default or do we want the extra processing power of compressing them) for a small increase in CPU time which still shouldn’t be more than double the current CPU load (which
is very low nearly always below 5%) even maxed out.
Here is some sample data from Microsoft on the issue:
Blah blah blah
Default Documents order
This is a little anal but it is sadly a common occurrence. Place the actual ‘default content page’ of the website at the top of the list.
I know I am being a little anal as this is a small overhead in IIS where it looks first for the other files. As this happens every time, people could be going to them tens of thousands of times a day and it would (slowly) add up.
Now I don’t know if here all pages are referenced directly with full URLs in which case this is less relevant but still best practice and worthwhile implementing.
More detailed logging
By default and IIS site only has the standard default IIS logging turned on.
There are many more useful fields that we turn on and although these make the logs bigger can but very useful when you can query search through them. Often cookies is not need and is a large
True you can save some CPU time if you reduce what you log (especially with things like useragent) but the usefulness of these logs more than outweighs the benefit.
However to get this really useful you have to search it.
The LogParser tool is very useful however I would recommend going one step further and collating them if possible in a database.
This give you more scope and makes it very easy to troubleshoot.
(Although this is more useful as the types of problems are different in a large Internet environment rather than an Intranet one it is still very useful.)
Some example scenarios that it would have been really handy in the brief time I have been on the servers.
Troubleshooting a problem where we are investigating an unresponsive IIS server.
Often a sign of the impending problems might be in the logs might be a collection of 500 errors and failure can happen
To find out when the errors first occurred we can write queries on the log database for all servers in a particular farm.
We can narrow the searches down easily to a particular directory, server(s), refers, user, headers, http status codes (and in IIS 6 error sub-codes), etc.
Then we can see patterns in the 500 errors to see what occurred there.
This process is very difficult to do at present with flat logs when you are looking over days across a farm of multiple server and if you have to search large files over multiple parameters it nearly impossible.
There are very few tools for troubleshooting IIS web server problems and many of these have to run in real-time before the error occurs which is never ideal on a production machine (and we have to wait for the error to occur again)
So collating the IIS logs into a searchable form is a very useful tool.
Optimising connection timeouts
The default setting for a site is that a connection stays open for 120 seconds of inactivity before closing and the visitor will have a establish a new connection.
This is controlled on a per-site basis.
Website properties Website tab.
Http Keep-Alives and connection timeout.
We are using the best practice of Keep-Alives how the time out period is that of the default. This is generally regarded as being too high. We should reduce this to 60 seconds (or less – many recommend 30 seconds) which is more realistic.
Caching
Optimising object cache TTL (time to live)
By default IIS hold every object in a cache for 30 seconds then it is discarded.
For a dynamic environment, like webappfarm, this is really not needed so the recommend best practice is that this can be reduced. I would say to 10 seconds.
Conversely for servers which hold a lot of static connect (the rest) it is recommended that this time is increased. I would say about 60 seconds some say longer.
This is control via the registry only and is sever wide.
Create ObjectCacheTTL as a Dword and assign the value (in seconds)
More Caching
IIS cache size is, by default, half the physical memory in the box (metabase reg - MemCacheValue). However there is a limit of the maximum size of each file held in the cache (metabase reg – MaxCachedFileSize) this by default is set to 256KB.
It is worth carefully checking the environment for commonly referenced files to see if any are over the 256KB default maximum. If we have a commonly accessed file that is over the limit then it makes sense to increase this limit.
Look out for large pictures on common pages and increasing rich media like flash and video clips.
Caching ASP content
aspScriptFileCacheSize is the amount of asp pages that by default this is 500. Heavy usage server with a lot of asp content could benefit from an increase in this value however there are various counters to monitor before we need to change the value (and
other related values, asp cache to disk, etc). Here Microsoft explains:
By default windows 2003 gives priority to the file system cache rather than the programs or working set.
It is generally recommended that you change to the working set (programs) rather than the file system.
This is common practice and highly recommend in say, an SQL Server environment, which have even more control of the memory resources in the program. IIS does benefit from this to a less degree hence why they do not turn it on as default as in SQL Server.
System Properties Advanced tab Performance Advanced Tab Memory Usage Adjust performance for Program.
Additionally going hand-in-hand with this is changing the preferences of the network card to optimise file and print sharing for the network application data.
Initially, I thought, that as IIS serves files than a large system cache is needed. However IIS is a network file and application server not strictly a file server or an application server and therefore has more of a benefit for network priority.
Network Connections Local Area Connection (for each connection) Properties File and Printer Sharing Properties Optimization Maximize data throughput for network applications. – instead of file sharing which is default 2003 server setting (again
SQL server machines will change the default to network apps)
Configure more detailed reporting in performance monitor
Configure Performance monitor to display associated process IDs instead of the incremental numbers (e.g. w3wp_5432 (where PID = 5432) instead of w3wp#1, etc) more details
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281884
Create ProcessNameFormat as a Dword and assign the value 2
Configure the admin user settings
Although a personal preference, there are useful features that you can enable/disable for admin of an IIS server.
These include:
Turning off ‘Show Friendly HTTP messages’ in IE
Create a dedicated web admin config msc file for mmc – include iis, computer management, com, .net components and all things that you need.
In task manager turn on more columns
Most useful are:
ProcessID counter (so we can work out the name (with iisapp.vbs) of what worker process app pools are taking up the most resources) [this was turned off by default in Win2003]
Virtual Memory
Trivial this but I have always used 1.5 times (or more) the memory for virtual memory. Most of the IIS best practice document I have seen seems to indict this. I believe 1.5 times is the recommend windows amount for any windows server.
Yeah it is bit long but there are a fair few things that you can change from the default 'out of the box' setup that is on most webservers (wooringly so givenmany places I have seen)
It is likely to get longer too I have a some more to add. And I was kind of hoping that others here might chip in useful titbits that they have for admin/performance so we could get a more compreshensive guide.
Great post. Definitely marked as a favorite. As you said, it's in Draft, do you plan on performing edits here to this post or are you thinking you may post updates on some other site?
Thanks for the guide. I found very good, it helped me so much in the part of application pool recycling, I apply fixed recycle at non labour hours and was excelent. I also applied to log app pool recycle. Thanks so much for your work, it was really helpful.
There is not one for IIS7 yet. Most of the same principles still apply to IIS7.x many of the defaults haven't changed even though there is a need for them too.
Hello, On our live server 30 plus websites are running under their own dedicated application pools. Each website has its own application pool. I can see the processor an RAM utilization with the help of “Task Manager” and “CSCRIPT” for each website (Application
pool). 1. I want that server should automatically capture Processor and RAM utilization data for all running application pool separately after every 30 seconds in a log file. 2. I want that server should capture total bytes send and received by the application
pool in a log file. 3. Please suggest some tool for IIS monitoring? Can you suggest some way to achieve it? Please note that we have IIS6 on Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition x32.
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IIS 6 performance tweak guide (draft)
Mar 25, 2008 12:07 PM|Rovastar|LINK
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Hi folks,
I am starting to write a performance tweaking guide for IIS 6.0 (I have not used IIS 7 enough yet and it is not in the enterprise much atm).
I am a contractor and mostly now-a-days (for the past 7 years) I do IIS web support /architect stuff and this has prompted me to write a performance tweaking guide as I am doing performance review off my own back in my latest role and it will be a useful checklist for thing in a new role.
I found that often the information is all over the place in different MS documentation, blogs, articles, etc and that often they would shy away from placing values in them. Although obviously you should not change the metabase or registry for major changes without doing performance reviews, etc it is nice to have some guidelines of what to expect.
(I intend increasing this to include detailed monitoring, how to do benchmarking in conjection with this, security, etc for IIS, also one for SQL performance tuning in a web environment and hopefully how to debug IIS hangs and crashes)
Anyway I have slowly got something together and note a few things.
a) It is not finished yet.
b) See a)
c) It was written initially for a large intranet infrastructure I am working in atm so some specific may remain. I will remove these to more general terms (and I probably have some sentences in there that make little sense….sorry)
d) The grammar and spelling are probably off. I will go through this in more detail later.
e) Some of the technical detail may even be off. So please feel free to suggestion corrections.
f) There are things missing some of them obvious. If they are doing best practice where I am I have not written about it so there is more to add. Also things no things like PHP as they have no PHP.
g) I apologies as I am working away atm and I cannot upload this to my website so it is a cut and paste job. :( It will be uploaded later.
Any I would like as much feedback as possible and when it is finished hopefully I will publish it somewhere.
Let me know what you think
John
IIS 6.0 performance tweak guide (draft)
Standard Resource Toolkits on the servers
The basic installation of IIS doesn’t come with many useful tools for administration.
Consider installing the following additional software that should be installed on all web servers:
Microsoft IIS Resource Kit
Microsoft IIS Diagnostic Toolkit (and download the latest versions of the apps that come with these kits e.g. DebugDiag, LogParser)
Microsoft Sysinternal Suite (stuff like process explorer, etc) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/0e18b180-9b7a-4c49-8120-c47c5a693683.aspx
Microsoft Network Monitor (latest version)
A better text editor than standard notepad like notepad++
Standardise the build of the servers so they are basically the same.
Hosts
It is useful to be able to access the sites on your server from the server. This is useful for many reasons detailed error messages, traffic flow through the infrastructure so you know you are on the correct machine, etc.
Many production environments there may be firewalls and policies in place to stop you doing this if possible you should try and obtain this.
It may be as simple as trusting your own sites in Internet Explorer so they are allowed through hard admin
Often in farm environments it is useful to know the actual server that they you are on.
You could have many servers and the hardware load balancer that controls what traffic comes to which server sometimes isn’t helpful.
In this case it may be may be useful set up additional host headers and host files references on the production servers in the farms so you can directly access that specific server from its browser.
Make sure all the web farms files are in synch
Nightly checks of the webfarm files to make sure they are all in synch with each other.
We can script this for all the files or schedule tasks with a package like windiff to ensure they are all in synch. Send out mail alerts if they are found to be out of synch.
Additionally we can modify this so we can work out if staging is in synch with the production server farm. Obviously there will be some changes between the web configuration files but it is still a useful maintenance technique.
Also check these with the disaster recovery servers to ensure they are all in synch.
Checking the details of each websites config files (e.g. web.config, etc) and each server metabase file of the farm is also very useful. Obviously these things shouldn’t change but it would be useful to know if they did.
Luckily, Microsoft are in the process of writing an app for this and other purposes.
Web Deployment Tool (currently in a useable tech preview stage) has been designed for IIS7 and for migration from IIS6. But it also features a useful looking comparison tool to compare the states of multiple IIS6 servers.
http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1602
Application Pool Recycling
By default an application pool has a recycle period of 1740 minutes or 29 hours. This is a ludicrous setting as it will be recycling application pools in peak times.
Much better is to recycle the application pools at fixed off peak times. For example - 1:00am.
For servers in farm environments stagger these recycle times so they are not all the same. E.g. Server A – 1:00am, Server B – 1:10am, Server C – 1:20am, etc
Additionally you can log when the app pools recycle. There are many reasons for a recycle and by default these are not recorded in the event viewer (very little is recorded by default for us admins). It is useful to have this for all events that occur.
Complete list:
AppPoolRecycleTime
AppPoolRecycleRequests
AppPoolRecycleSchedule
AppPoolRecycleMemory
AppPoolRecycleIsapiUnhealthy
AppPoolRecycleOnDemand
AppPoolRecycleConfigChange
AppPoolRecyclePrivateMemory
To turn them all on:
cscript adsutil.vbs Set w3svc/AppPools/DefaultAppPool/LogEventOnRecycle 255
HTTP Compression
This can be especially useful for static web content as the compression only has to be done the once and then cached. Dynamic content is compressed on the fly and not cached.
One of the main areas of usefulness of compression is the saving of the network traffic and thus a potential reduction for your hosting bills.
Although HTTP compression was previously more useful where there was less broadband and more dialup in years gone by. In today modern environment it is still a useful tool and should not overlooked. Increasingly people are also using mobile, wireless, etc in greater numbers and these will benefit much more with compression.
One of the previous downsides to HTTP compression years ago was that browsers did not support the HTTP 1.1 standards for this but from, I think IE5.5, they have been setting this ‘on’ as default.
(The benefits of an Intranet environment is that, in general, you have fewer multiple browsers to be concerned about as you are likely to know what company standard browsers are.)
Obviously static previously uncompressed content like HTML pages can benefit a lot from compression.
Although on an intranet the rewards of compression of web content should more than make up for small CPU overhead of producing the compression in the first place.
The server is not local and is in Ireland so people connecting to the UK intranet will benefit from the reduced amount of traffic. For quickly produced pages on the website the main area of slowdown for the user will the time it take to receive the pages across the network.
For the infrastructure here you will probably be saving 30% in network traffic overall (plain text files; HTML, ASP, JS, etc (we can configure in the metabase what files we want to compress beyond the default ones) will benefit from 50-60% size reductions for compression, jpegs, and other already compressed formats do not get compressed by default or do we want the extra processing power of compressing them) for a small increase in CPU time which still shouldn’t be more than double the current CPU load (which is very low nearly always below 5%) even maxed out.
Here is some sample data from Microsoft on the issue:
Blah blah blah
Default Documents order
This is a little anal but it is sadly a common occurrence. Place the actual ‘default content page’ of the website at the top of the list.
For example if you default page is
www.mywebsite.com/default.asp
then don’t have a default documents order of
Default.aspx
Default.htm
Default.asp
Index.htm
I know I am being a little anal as this is a small overhead in IIS where it looks first for the other files. As this happens every time, people could be going to them tens of thousands of times a day and it would (slowly) add up.
Now I don’t know if here all pages are referenced directly with full URLs in which case this is less relevant but still best practice and worthwhile implementing.
More detailed logging
By default and IIS site only has the standard default IIS logging turned on.
There are many more useful fields that we turn on and although these make the logs bigger can but very useful when you can query search through them. Often cookies is not need and is a large
True you can save some CPU time if you reduce what you log (especially with things like useragent) but the usefulness of these logs more than outweighs the benefit.
However to get this really useful you have to search it.
The LogParser tool is very useful however I would recommend going one step further and collating them if possible in a database.
This give you more scope and makes it very easy to troubleshoot.
(Although this is more useful as the types of problems are different in a large Internet environment rather than an Intranet one it is still very useful.)
Some example scenarios that it would have been really handy in the brief time I have been on the servers.
Troubleshooting a problem where we are investigating an unresponsive IIS server.
Often a sign of the impending problems might be in the logs might be a collection of 500 errors and failure can happen
To find out when the errors first occurred we can write queries on the log database for all servers in a particular farm.
We can narrow the searches down easily to a particular directory, server(s), refers, user, headers, http status codes (and in IIS 6 error sub-codes), etc.
Then we can see patterns in the 500 errors to see what occurred there.
This process is very difficult to do at present with flat logs when you are looking over days across a farm of multiple server and if you have to search large files over multiple parameters it nearly impossible.
There are very few tools for troubleshooting IIS web server problems and many of these have to run in real-time before the error occurs which is never ideal on a production machine (and we have to wait for the error to occur again)
So collating the IIS logs into a searchable form is a very useful tool.
Optimising connection timeouts
The default setting for a site is that a connection stays open for 120 seconds of inactivity before closing and the visitor will have a establish a new connection.
This is controlled on a per-site basis.
Website properties Website tab.
Http Keep-Alives and connection timeout.
We are using the best practice of Keep-Alives how the time out period is that of the default. This is generally regarded as being too high. We should reduce this to 60 seconds (or less – many recommend 30 seconds) which is more realistic.
Caching
Optimising object cache TTL (time to live)
By default IIS hold every object in a cache for 30 seconds then it is discarded.
For a dynamic environment, like webappfarm, this is really not needed so the recommend best practice is that this can be reduced. I would say to 10 seconds.
Conversely for servers which hold a lot of static connect (the rest) it is recommended that this time is increased. I would say about 60 seconds some say longer.
This is control via the registry only and is sever wide.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\InetInfo\Parameters
Create ObjectCacheTTL as a Dword and assign the value (in seconds)
More Caching
IIS cache size is, by default, half the physical memory in the box (metabase reg - MemCacheValue). However there is a limit of the maximum size of each file held in the cache (metabase reg – MaxCachedFileSize) this by default is set to 256KB.
It is worth carefully checking the environment for commonly referenced files to see if any are over the 256KB default maximum. If we have a commonly accessed file that is over the limit then it makes sense to increase this limit.
Look out for large pictures on common pages and increasing rich media like flash and video clips.
Caching ASP content
aspScriptFileCacheSize is the amount of asp pages that by default this is 500. Heavy usage server with a lot of asp content could benefit from an increase in this value however there are various counters to monitor before we need to change the value (and other related values, asp cache to disk, etc). Here Microsoft explains:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/a9171159-c801-4705-b8a9-9eecf58a892f.mspx?mfr=true
Working set preferences
By default windows 2003 gives priority to the file system cache rather than the programs or working set.
It is generally recommended that you change to the working set (programs) rather than the file system.
This is common practice and highly recommend in say, an SQL Server environment, which have even more control of the memory resources in the program. IIS does benefit from this to a less degree hence why they do not turn it on as default as in SQL Server.
System Properties Advanced tab Performance Advanced Tab Memory Usage Adjust performance for Program.
Additionally going hand-in-hand with this is changing the preferences of the network card to optimise file and print sharing for the network application data.
Initially, I thought, that as IIS serves files than a large system cache is needed. However IIS is a network file and application server not strictly a file server or an application server and therefore has more of a benefit for network priority.
Network Connections Local Area Connection (for each connection) Properties File and Printer Sharing Properties Optimization Maximize data throughput for network applications. – instead of file sharing which is default 2003 server setting (again SQL server machines will change the default to network apps)
Configure more detailed reporting in performance monitor
Configure Performance monitor to display associated process IDs instead of the incremental numbers (e.g. w3wp_5432 (where PID = 5432) instead of w3wp#1, etc) more details
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281884
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PerfProc\Performance\
Create ProcessNameFormat as a Dword and assign the value 2
Configure the admin user settings
Although a personal preference, there are useful features that you can enable/disable for admin of an IIS server.
These include:
Turning off ‘Show Friendly HTTP messages’ in IE
Create a dedicated web admin config msc file for mmc – include iis, computer management, com, .net components and all things that you need.
In task manager turn on more columns
Most useful are:
ProcessID counter (so we can work out the name (with iisapp.vbs) of what worker process app pools are taking up the most resources) [this was turned off by default in Win2003]
Virtual Memory
Trivial this but I have always used 1.5 times (or more) the memory for virtual memory. Most of the IIS best practice document I have seen seems to indict this. I believe 1.5 times is the recommend windows amount for any windows server.
https://www.leansentry.com/
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Re: IIS 6 performance tweak guide (draft)
Mar 31, 2008 04:30 AM|Rovastar|LINK
I have left it a few days and no replies.
What do people think?
Do you agree? do you disagree? Was it useful? Anything more to add? Anything to correct?
Is everyone using IIS 7 now and this is irrelevant?
https://www.leansentry.com/
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Re: IIS 6 performance tweak guide (draft)
Mar 31, 2008 06:09 AM|aqi8732|LINK
That is great! I will take a while to implement them. But it is a bit too long for me. ;)
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Re: IIS 6 performance tweak guide (draft)
Apr 01, 2008 06:38 AM|Rovastar|LINK
Glad you find it useful.
Yeah it is bit long but there are a fair few things that you can change from the default 'out of the box' setup that is on most webservers (wooringly so givenmany places I have seen)
It is likely to get longer too I have a some more to add. And I was kind of hoping that others here might chip in useful titbits that they have for admin/performance so we could get a more compreshensive guide.
https://www.leansentry.com/
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Re: IIS 6 performance tweak guide (draft)
Jul 02, 2008 07:03 AM|BBKing212|LINK
I found this article very useful and it is not to long.
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Re: IIS 6 performance tweak guide (draft)
Jan 20, 2009 05:04 AM|hasan137|LINK
Very Useful and Informative Document on IIS 6.0 Performance.
A good Tweek Guide.
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Re: IIS 6 performance tweak guide (draft)
Jan 29, 2009 08:54 PM|Billyhole|LINK
Great post. Definitely marked as a favorite. As you said, it's in Draft, do you plan on performing edits here to this post or are you thinking you may post updates on some other site?
Again, thanks for the great post.
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Re: IIS 6 performance tweak guide (draft)
Jan 30, 2009 07:19 AM|Rovastar|LINK
Thanks for the posts.
I do intend doing updates on my new blog/resource site
http://www.iisportal.com/ Now this site is working I'll do some updates to it.
To be honest I was hoping a few other experienced IIS users might have wanted to add their suggestions to it but no-one has come forward.
https://www.leansentry.com/
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Re: IIS 6 performance tweak guide (draft)
Jan 30, 2009 06:47 PM|hbusto|LINK
Thanks for the guide. I found very good, it helped me so much in the part of application pool recycling, I apply fixed recycle at non labour hours and was excelent. I also applied to log app pool recycle. Thanks so much for your work, it was really helpful.
Hector Busto.
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Re: IIS 6 performance tweak guide (draft)
Jul 23, 2009 02:31 AM|snaveen_333|LINK
I am not able to access the link.
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Re: IIS 6 performance tweak guide (draft)
Jul 23, 2009 09:18 AM|Rovastar|LINK
Yeah, I know it is down atm hopefully I will get it working soon. Most are still in the article though.
https://www.leansentry.com/
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Re: IIS 6 performance tweak guide (draft)
Nov 09, 2009 11:18 AM|K-Dubb|LINK
Thank you for this. Is there a guide for IIS7, or are some of these set by default?
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Re: IIS 6 performance tweak guide (draft)
Nov 12, 2009 05:46 AM|Rovastar|LINK
There is not one for IIS7 yet. Most of the same principles still apply to IIS7.x many of the defaults haven't changed even though there is a need for them too.
https://www.leansentry.com/
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Re: IIS 6 performance tweak guide (draft)
Nov 18, 2009 11:20 AM|Kalyn288|LINK
Great INFO! I've just begun working as an IIS administrator and find this one of the most informative and cohesive documents.
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Re: IIS 6 performance tweak guide (draft)
Jan 25, 2011 02:29 AM|johnsongau|LINK
Great done.Thanks for your sharing.
Johnson Gau
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Re: IIS 6 performance tweak guide (draft)
Feb 09, 2011 04:30 AM|callie_sunrise|LINK
The OP doesnt seem to have commented or update this in a while... Is this guide now dead? The OP's blog site does not work either.
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Re: IIS 6 performance tweak guide (draft)
Feb 22, 2011 12:32 PM|Rovastar|LINK
The guide hasn't been updated for a while but I don't class the information there as dead. If you find a more useful one let me know.
https://www.leansentry.com/
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Re: IIS 6 performance tweak guide (draft)
Oct 22, 2011 03:46 PM|waseemraza78|LINK
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Re: IIS 6 performance tweak guide (draft)
Oct 23, 2011 03:03 PM|steve schofield|LINK
Not sure you are going to find something that meets your specific needs.
1) You can look at Windows Resource Monitor
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755056.aspx
2) The iis site records the bites sent / received in the iis log files. You can use log parser to extract.
Steve Schofield
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Re: IIS 6 performance tweak guide (draft)
Nov 07, 2012 06:51 AM|kishor171|LINK
Lools like you have written the article in hurry and for Pro's, not amatuers. No formatting.
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Re: IIS 6 performance tweak guide (draft)
Nov 07, 2012 07:31 AM|Rovastar|LINK
Yeah it only took my 5 minutes to write that rather than weeks of research.
It is designed for people that know the fundamentals of computers.
If you an amateurs then just go with the defaults you are should not be using a busy website.
There was word formatting but the IIS forums have never been able to cope with that. So you have it like that.
Feel free to write a better guide.
Why on earth am I feeding a troll like you anyway.............
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Re: IIS 6 performance tweak guide (draft)
Apr 21, 2015 08:10 AM|Syed Sohaib JAmil|LINK
Really great to see a guide it has helped me to understand IIS greatly
Hopefully you keep writing