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Internet Information Services (IIS) 6 Resource Kit
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Internet Information Services (IIS) 6 Resource Kit

by The Microsoft IIS Team
September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1264 pages
35h 56m
English
Microsoft Press
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Improving Scalability by Optimizing IIS 6.0 Caches

A cache is a special subsystem that stores frequently requested data. Without caches or caching, IIS can potentially impose three time-consuming processes on each request, which can cause poor response times. These processes include:

  • Reading metadata for each request, which results in a time-consuming remote procedure call (RPC) to the IIS Admin service.

  • Retrieving the authentication token for the IUSR_computername account with a time-consuming RPC to Lsass.exe.

  • Opening and reading the file.

To mitigate these time-consuming processes, HTTP.sys and IIS use caches. These caches are all enabled by default and should not require much tuning by administrators. If, while monitoring Web Service Cache counters ...

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