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03.21.2004 at 09:27AM PST, ID: 20926471

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w3wp.exe CPU 100 %

Zone: Microsoft IIS Web Server

I manage a web site. It was made with asp and a dll com object in vb6. This dll and asp site work on a a lot of win 2k server. I put it on a windows 2003 server standard edition and cpu after some minutes go 100% and statica page works, asp page doesn't. With a IISRESET I solve the problem but only for few minutes. I tried to configure IIS in IIS 5.0 compatibility mode, but now dllhost.exe cause cpu to 100%.
I checked all asp files and after the createObject I set to nothing the object. I saw the propeties of the dll project (retained in memory and unattended excecution are both true).
I don't know what to do!!!
Help me
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Question Asked By: antonellocorbo

Solution Provided By: SurferJoe

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03.21.2004 at 10:05AM PST, ID: 10644620

Timbo87:

I had something similar to that happen and it ended up being an infinite for loop that caused it.

03.21.2004 at 11:22AM PST, ID: 10644870

antonellocorbo:

Sampe app works on other servers

03.21.2004 at 11:27AM PST, ID: 10644887

antonellocorbo:

and, another strange thing i noticed. I put the app on one server and it wen fine for some days, than the problem began. I put today on another server (win 2003 also) and in the morning with a lot of user task manager was fine :
System idle process 99 % and w3wp 2/10 %. In the afternoon the disaster, few users and cpu 100% with w3wp consuming all cpu resources. I Also rebboted the server but without any good result

03.22.2004 at 07:00AM PST, ID: 10649310

SurferJoe:

Is your virus protection up to date?

A Google search on w3wp.exe returned a bunch of interesting information. My guess, there are programming implications that have been overlooked by the suspect web sites developers.

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03.22.2004 at 01:57PM PST, ID: 10653111

antonellocorbo:

i think that the problem was solved. It seems really strange. I will explain. I noticed that when a user logged in , cpu increased about od 10/15 % , than i tried with some iis debugging utilities, and i suspected that there was something wrong in the login verify procedure. No loop, only a stored procedure that was not working, because it tried to insert data on a Sql server Database that was not on that server. I corrected this Stored procedure. And today i got no problem. But to be sure i will wait tomorrow!!!

07.16.2004 at 04:11AM PDT, ID: 11567132

Firewater:

Similiar situation but there are 70+ websites running on a win2003 server and it is nearly impossible to go through each site to pinpoint which one is causing it. All seemed to be fine with win2k.

I have tried installing MS's IIS Debug Tools - but that just kills my web services (but is runs succesfully on another win2k server box).

My crude solution for now to keep things stable is to run Server Alive to check one of the sites and when it is non-responsive it issues an IIS restart.

01.24.2005 at 02:04AM PST, ID: 13119744

fadisky:

the proplem resides within ms W2003 server, that some updates should be applyed, unfortionatly the updates should be obtained from ms no direct download is avalable

01.24.2005 at 02:04AM PST, ID: 13119750

fadisky:

Mom2005-rtm-kb883925-x86-enu.exe

03.24.2005 at 07:34AM PST, ID: 13622558

jcwitcher:

We had a similar problem with our web services running on both IIS 5 and IIS6. The problem was cured when we set up the application pools parameters. We set the the recycling parameters to something more suitable for our needs. If you are running IIS in native mode, look in the Application Pools Properties and reduce the setting to cause a recycle before the 100% cpu utilization is realized. If you have multiple processors setting the web garden will increase performance and have additional service instances available while recycling is in process.

Hope this helps

04.08.2005 at 09:46AM PDT, ID: 13738191

kvanapal:

We had a very similiar problem with the w3wp.exe when we were running into infinite loop while building an Active Report with dynamic controls. We are actually lookin thru a DataReader and for some strange reason we landed into an infinite loop while readin the data reader.

There is one more problem tht I cud see with the w3wp.exe file, the memory usage keeps growing as the application runs for a while. this file approx consumes 70 to 80 Meg of Ram on the server and it never comes down. We hav a reporting Web appl on line and we only build reports. Max clients cub be between 15 to 20 and Max size of any file cud be between 3Meg to 15Meg ( worst case senario). Can anyone tell me wht cud be the problem.

07.12.2005 at 09:26AM PDT, ID: 14423011

praveenviswanath:

W3Wp.exe is an executable, which comes into action whenever the server runs an application that sends data to / from the server.
Lets say you make an application which scrapes out all the pages on another domain, or scrapes out the websites coming up in Google rsults.(The various extensions which may be used by people to make such applications are MSXml, Winhttp, ASP Tear etc). An application using these extensions are used by some one for the purpose of making transactions of mass amounts of data to / from the internet and w3wp moves into action. The problem with this little executable is that it starts squeezing out the CPU.

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