5Performance and Reliability

IN THIS CHAPTER

Improvements in content caching

Worker Process Enhancements

Defining Quality of Service

What's New

The performance and speed of your Web sites should always be a concern. This is actually the primary reason behind what must be the biggest change in the way IIS operates—the new execution model. We actually looked at this in greater detail in Chapter 2, “Architecture and Execution.” We can summarize the key points as

Increased performanceThe separation of the component that accepts requests and the one that processes them enables IIS 6 to more efficiently handle and respond to requests. This is especially true on systems that have multiple processors because individual CPUs ...

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