IIS7 - what does MaxProcesses do?
Does anyone know what this value is for?
If set to 1, then it seems that there can be only one request to the server. For example, we have a classic ASP file that loads fine, but also has images in it (which come from the same script on the server). The page will load, but the images will never load ... the page just spins forever.
Raising the MaxProcesses value in IIS7 fixes this, but then every time a new process spawns we run into problems with session values not being persisted, as well as long page loads that we don't get when MaxProcesses is set to 1.
There may be another setting that I am not aware of, which works in tandem with this.
See this question for an answer (server-side debugging has been enabled).
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Gets or sets the number of worker processes associated with the application pool. Default value = 1; A value other than 1 indicates a web garden. In this case, if you want to keep your session, you need to choose the out of proc method for sessions (for example, using SQL Server).
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