General Notes on IIS 6.0 Application Pool Tuning

The official recommendations are here:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/8b432018-d284-4140-b2ea-f063ea0933a9.mspx?mfr=true

Isolate, isolate, isolate!

Rarely ever recommend Web Gardening.

Try not to use Memory based triggers… these are crutches/bandaids/workarounds. Instead run a perfmon capture and one (or two) hangdumps [link]

Scale out (web farm / load balancer )