| crmsnidol |
OK guys, this post is obviously not for everyone but for those of you who dabble in web dev or personal hosting, listen up.
I'm running IIS 5.0 on a Win2K machine with SP4 installed. Everything has been fine until this afternoon when I was web browsing and found my system slow as molasses. I check the task manager and sure enough, INETINFO.EXE had my CPU pegged at 99% (That's the IIS .exe). Did a search on the web and found many issues relating to virii and/or improper .asp or Cold Fusion implementations (loops). None affected me. The other thing I checked was for virii. McAfee found nothing and I ran the TrendMicro remote check which also came up clean.
As a last resort I reinstalled IIS and now it seems fine. I feel kinda foolish relying on a reinstall but couldn't find any hotfixes or patches that helped. Any of you guys have a similar experience or recommend an alternative. I'm guessing Daniel will say run Apache which I may do if and when I get my other box online. I currently just use the server for testing small client web changes/updates prior to FTPing. Nothing big. |
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| texrb |
I checked with my son & he has had no probs with IIS. Sounds like you had some file corruption somewhere since the re-install fixed it. Also I think Apache is for use with Linus servers.
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| crmsnidol |
quote:
Originally posted by texrb
I checked with my son & he has had no probs with IIS. Sounds like you had some file corruption somewhere since the re-install fixed it. Also I think Apache is for use with Linus servers.
Have you also considered using this site below for $9/mo for unlimited bandwidth & unlimited space?
http://www.123hostnow.com/
Thanks. I know Apache is for Linux - I was referring to the stability of the server. The file corruption was probably it as I ran CHKDSK today and had some files relinked after a hard boot.
No, I'm not looking for a host. I can do that myself if I wanted to and if that were the case I would move to a Linux OS. I just run the IIS server against my IP to test changes to pages and to let clients preview the work prior to moving it to their hosted accounts.
Thx. |
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| wmquan |
Apache will run on Windows as well. But IIS should work just fine.
When INETINFO was eating up most of your CPU, did you try to stop and start IIS services (e.g. IISRESET or through the computer management tools)? When you did that, did it take care of it, or did the CPU zoom back up immediately?
Of course, if you had some corruption that could easily have been why. |
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| crmsnidol |
quote:
Originally posted by wmquan
Apache will run on Windows as well. But IIS should work just fine.
When INETINFO was eating up most of your CPU, did you try to stop and start IIS services (e.g. IISRESET or through the computer management tools)? When you did that, did it take care of it, or did the CPU zoom back up immediately?
Of course, if you had some corruption that could easily have been why.
I could not kill the process without installing the NT4 (yes NT4) tweak util that includes kill.exe which is a command line app that I could use to kill the errant process. I couldn't kill it through other means. In fact, I couldn't affect any of the IIS files without killing the process. Rebooting was fine but immed after I tried to access a local page the CPU cycles shot through the roof and stayed there. Similar to a DOS attack without being a real attack. |
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