Improving Application Performance
Web applications continue to increase in popularity, constituting an ever larger proportion of the average Web server file base. The challenge for administrators is to preserve speed and efficiency while serving complex applications. By monitoring and tuning different types of applications, in addition to static HTML pages, you can estimate application overhead during periods of varying activity to ensure that your server is prepared for the workload.
Use the tools and counters that are included with IIS 6.0, such as those discussed here, to help you optimize application performance:
Test applications with stress tools. Use a stress client like the Web Capacity Analysis Tool (WCAT) to test your applications under ...
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