Configuring Worker Process Recycling

Manual recycling of worker processes might work when you’re troubleshooting, but on a day-to-day basis you probably don’t have time to monitor worker process resource usage and responsiveness. To have IIS handle worker process recycling for you, you’ll want to configure some type of automatic worker process recycling. Automatic worker process recycling can be configured to occur:

  • After a specific time period. Recycles worker processes based on the amount of time they’ve been running. Best used when applications have known problems running for extended periods of time.

  • When a certain number of requests are processed. Recycles worker processes based on the number of requests processed. Best used when applications ...

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