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All,



I have a co-worker who is setting up an application pool on IIS 6.0 for

EVERY website on all of our servers. WE have about 10 websites per IIS 6.0

servers.



Is this overkill? How many Application Pools are too much? Downsides to

doing this?



Thank you for your time.



Jack B


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Hi Jack,

ten websites is nothing. Depending on the load, iis can handle up to many

hundred websites.



But, if you get problems, will say, web pages will be shown with a delay

that hurts, or will abort completely, then you shold read at

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or at general at

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greetings from germany

Chris



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See the IIS Resource Kit sections on performance and scalability.

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Hi,



In addition to Tom's response.



Each application pool will consume resources, so i suppose that is the

disadvantage. You should however compare this to the advantages of

application pools.



10 application pools on a server is however not in any way overkill. One

application pool per website is not strange at all, instead it is a quite

good configuration (of course this depends on the website(s) and its web

applications).



You have too many application pools when the server is running short on

resources because the application pools consume too much resources.





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None wrote:

Thoughts on provisioning:

blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/archive/2005/09/01/HOWTO_Provision_ASP_dotNet_AppDomains_and_IIS6_Application_Pools.aspx">blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/archive/2005/09/01/HOWTO_Provision_ASP_dotNet_AppDomains_and_IIS6_Application_Pools.aspx



In general, one cannot comment on whether 10 application pools is an

overkill without also knowing:

1. How much physical RAM is on the server

2. The amount of RAM used by each application at steady-state



It is possible for two Application Pools to be overkill. It is also possible

for 2000 Application Pools to be overkill. All depends on the physical

hardware and the application resource requirements...



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"None" <none@yaho.com>wrote in message

All,



I have a co-worker who is setting up an application pool on IIS 6.0 for

EVERY website on all of our servers. WE have about 10 websites per IIS 6.0

servers.



Is this overkill? How many Application Pools are too much? Downsides to

doing this?



Thank you for your time.



Jack B







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