w3wp.exe

In an ISAPI filter, what is a good approach for a common logfile for multiple processes?

I have an ISAPI filter that runs on IIS6 or 7. When there are multiple worker processes ("Web garden"), the filter will be loaded and run in each w3wp.exe. How can I efficiently allow the filter to log its activities in a single consolidated logfile? log messages from the different (concurrent) processes must not interfere with eac...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta does not attach to w3wp.exe automatically on debugging IIS7

I don't know if this a bug of VS2010 Beta, but right now breakpoints don't get hit, when I start an ASP.NET debug session by pressing F5 (Web settings configured to "Use Local IIS Web server".) I always have to switch back to Visual Studio, press Alt+Ctrl+P and manually attach to w3wp.exe process. Then, after reloading the website in In...

SharePoint 2007 Central Admin w3wp.exe process consumin 99% CPU

Hi, I have been running an intranet using SharePoint 2007 for over a year and all has been working fine. However, after some time, I realized that the intranet portal was slow. Trying to access the Central Admin over another computer not the SharePoint server also became an issue. So I logged onto the real SharePoint Server and it took ...

w3wp.exe in ASP.NET production app is using 100% CPU. How to find the problem ?

Hi, we have an asp.net app in production where w3wp.exe is taking 100% CPU ( 4 cores - 4 threads at 25% ) and cpu load never goes down until we recycle the application pool ( the app is alone in the application pool ). Our error log has nothing, there is no exceptions being emitted ( or at least we don't catch them ) so we suspect it's ...

Recover memory from w3wp.exe

Hi guys, Is it possible to recover memory lost from w3wp.exe? I thought a session.abandon() should clear up the resources like that? The thing is I have a web application, certain pages make w3wp.exe grow significantly. Like from 40 MB to 400 MB. Now I am going to optimize my code defiantly to reduce this, however for what ever amount t...

LinkPoint payment integration with IIS6 on windows server 2003 crashes w3wp.exe

I am using the LinkPointTransaction.dll from FirstData to process credit card transactions. As the code is running, a call to the LinkPointTransaction.LinkPointTxn.Send() sends the transaction successfully to FirstData over the internet, but my application crashes w3wp.exe somewhere during that call, before it hits the next line. It doe...

SQL Server timeout caused by w3wp.exe crashing

Hello, I have a ongoing issue with my website, where it appears the W3wp.exe crashes and in turn anyone attempting to connect to the site will receive a SQL server timeout error. The error is this... System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is no...