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100% CPU utilization with high traffic and spiky CPU with low traffic
Hello,
We have a .Net 2.0 site which is based on Ektron the CMS and while the site operates and IIS never crashes we are unable to keep up with traffic due to high CPU usage. It seems there is a tipping point when we get near 100 users or more on the site.
Using process explorer I see that both my Xeon 3.0ghz CPU's will be pegged at 100% on w3wp.exe which is the IIS worker process. Inside that process there are .Net dll calls (mscorwks.dll!CreateApplic
There are 3 web servers behind a load balancer and too much traffic during elevated times so I need to find a fix. I believe it's a code issue in .Net as I have about 60 other webservers with similar .Net MSSQL setup and no issues. Some of those servers have 100 times the load with no issues at all.
As a test we installed the new .Net 2.0 Service Pack 1 which was released on January 23rd to see if that might fix it as it had several rollup patches and hotfixes which updated mscorwks.dll. This did not change the spiking CPU however instead of "mscorwks.dll!CreateApplic
We have been running perfmon and SQL traces for days and everything points back to .Net itself being the issue. The hardware, network, and DB side of things appears to be stable and smooth. A general thought might be to add more hardware but sincerely thats not an option and I have other servers with literally 100 times the load with no problem running other sides.
Does anyone have any idea's on what this might be?
We have a .Net 2.0 site which is based on Ektron the CMS and while the site operates and IIS never crashes we are unable to keep up with traffic due to high CPU usage. It seems there is a tipping point when we get near 100 users or more on the site.
Using process explorer I see that both my Xeon 3.0ghz CPU's will be pegged at 100% on w3wp.exe which is the IIS worker process. Inside that process there are .Net dll calls (mscorwks.dll!CreateApplic
There are 3 web servers behind a load balancer and too much traffic during elevated times so I need to find a fix. I believe it's a code issue in .Net as I have about 60 other webservers with similar .Net MSSQL setup and no issues. Some of those servers have 100 times the load with no issues at all.
As a test we installed the new .Net 2.0 Service Pack 1 which was released on January 23rd to see if that might fix it as it had several rollup patches and hotfixes which updated mscorwks.dll. This did not change the spiking CPU however instead of "mscorwks.dll!CreateApplic
We have been running perfmon and SQL traces for days and everything points back to .Net itself being the issue. The hardware, network, and DB side of things appears to be stable and smooth. A general thought might be to add more hardware but sincerely thats not an option and I have other servers with literally 100 times the load with no problem running other sides.
Does anyone have any idea's on what this might be?
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Hello,
We have found a solution to this on our own and the answer was both code and web server changes were needed to get optimal performance.
In IIS Microsoft had us change the deftaul thread count and bump it all the way to 200 per worker process. This helped it quite a bit.
Addtionally we broke up the application into functional elements and tested them individually. The dynamic navigation menu was the major holdup as well. This was fixed by tweaking the stored procedures on the application.
I didn't expect anyone to know application specifics but more of a direction to head in. I am taking the time to comment in case this helps anyone else with the same issue in the future.
We have found a solution to this on our own and the answer was both code and web server changes were needed to get optimal performance.
In IIS Microsoft had us change the deftaul thread count and bump it all the way to 200 per worker process. This helped it quite a bit.
Addtionally we broke up the application into functional elements and tested them individually. The dynamic navigation menu was the major holdup as well. This was fixed by tweaking the stored procedures on the application.
I didn't expect anyone to know application specifics but more of a direction to head in. I am taking the time to comment in case this helps anyone else with the same issue in the future.
2drews,
I am having the same problem as you describe. Can you provide any more details on your work arounds? This is a terrible problem! Thanks!
-Thorin
I am having the same problem as you describe. Can you provide any more details on your work arounds? This is a terrible problem! Thanks!
-Thorin
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