Dear All,

Our ASP pages are running on Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition (Without any Service Pack) and IIS 6.0.
When some specific ASP pages are called, CPU utilization is becoming 100%, with highest utilization (95 %) by W3WP.EXE process .

Can any body help me? Urgent....

Thanks


Kausik Nag Majumdar

Have you step through the pages in dev?
You might be making a refence that is not obtainable on the server but is on the dev machine

Finding the reason for the high CPU utilization can take some time since you will have to locate the code that is causing the problem. I am working through this right now on a vb.net app that I recently developed. In the meantime, I have developed a page that has a button which an Administrative user can click to stop the W3WP.exe process. It is a great stop gap measure until the problem code can be identified and updated. Here is the code I used. Just create a .aspx page with a button that call the following code on the corresponding .aspx.vb page. The code uses the command prompt to get the Tasklist and writes this to a file. I then parse the text file for the PID of the W3WP.exe worker process. Then, I access the command prompt programmatically again to terminate the W3WP.exe process using the PID.

Imports System.Web

Partial Class TAP
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page

Protected Sub btnStop_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnStop.Click
Call thStop_IIS()
End Sub

Function thStop_IIS()

Dim varRetval As String
Dim varPID As String
dim x as long
Dim savePath As String = Request.PhysicalApplicationPath + "exports\"
If Dir(savePath + "filename.txt") = "filename.txt" Then
Kill(savePath + "filename.txt")
End If

varRetval = Shell("cmd /c tasklist > " + savePath + "filename.txt")

For x = 1 To 90000000

Next x

varPID = thParse_File_Return_PID(savePath + "filename.txt")
varRetval = Shell("cmd /c taskkill /pid " & varPID & " /F")
Return True
End Function

Function thParse_File_Return_PID(ByVal varFileToParse As String) As Integer

On Error GoTo handler_err

Dim FILE_NAME As String = varFileToParse
Dim TextLine As String
Dim varPID As Integer
Dim x As Long

If System.IO.File.Exists(FILE_NAME) = True Then

Dim objReader As New System.IO.StreamReader(FILE_NAME)

Do While objReader.Peek() <> -1
'TextLine = TextLine & objReader.ReadLine() & vbNewLine
TextLine = objReader.ReadLine() & vbNewLine
If InStr(TextLine, "w3wp.exe") Then
varPID = Mid(TextLine, 31, 4)
End If
Loop

thParse_File_Return_PID = varPID

Else
thParse_File_Return_PID = 0
End If



handler_exit:
Exit Function

handler_err:
'MsgBox(Err.Number & " " & Err.Description & ":" & thParse_File_Return_PID
Resume

End Function

End Class

I just thought others might find this code helpful as a stop gap while trying to find the root cause of the high CPU utilization.