Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Resource Kit
by Olga M. Londer Mike Volordarsky Brett Hill, Bernard Cheah, Steve Schofield, Carlos Aguiar Mares, Kurt Meyer, and Microsoft IIS Team
Enabling Dynamic Idle Threshold
In addition to the process gating feature, IIS 7.0 offers a brand-new feature that dynamically adjusts the application pool idle shutdown time based on system memory usage. A worker process is idle when it is not processing requests or when no pending requests are in the application pool’s request queue. Idle shutdown time indicates the amount of time a worker process will remain idle before WAS decides to shut down the worker process.
Recall that the application pool idle shutdown time is set to 20 minutes by default and is configurable per application pool via the dynamicIdleTimeout attribute under the <processModel> configuration element. This new dynamic idle threshold focuses on the percentage of committed physical ...
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