ASP.NET causing inetinfo to load at 100%

From: Roberto Ortolano (ortorob@ch.alicom.com)
Date: 08/28/02 

From: ortorob@ch.alicom.com (Roberto Ortolano)
Date: 28 Aug 2002 09:11:30 -0700

Hello,

I host several sites on a win2k sp3 server (IIS5) with asp.net(SP2)
too.

Lately the load goes suddenly to 100% (all eaten up by inetinfo.exe)
and the ASP queue goes up until I get "server too busy". In the past,
I always found the culprit of this heavy load: some bugged ASP script,
loops and so on. I use filemon.exe from www.sysinternals.com which is
very usefull to find asp or db blocks.

Since I saw that aspnet_wp.exe was getting 0% of CPU resources, I
discarded the chance that this issue had something to do with asp.net

Last time I had this problem, I found out that the ASP queue was at 1
(costantly) and the ASP.NET queue was skyrocketing. So I stopped the
traffic on the server (unplugged the cable) and none of the queues
would go down.

So I said: blocking issues exist for ASP.NET too! My question is: how
do I avoid them? Is there any setting to timeout the applications? how
do I find out which site is causing the blocking? any suggestions?

Thank you very much!!!