IIS Debug Diagnostics tool does a bunch of things for you automagically, and is geared towards w3wp.exe issues.
Otherwise you can simply download the Windows Debugging Toolkit (the main tool you want is WinDBG), or use any user mode debugger (even Visual Studio.Net) if you want to try to root cause yourself However actually understanding what you are looking at requires some knowledge (plus some knowledge of how the tool works) Personally, I would use IISDebugDiag, and post the output to forums.iis.net - a bunch of MS PSS folk and MVPs hang out there, and if they can't help you within bounds of reason, they will direct you to PSS support if required. Cheers Ken From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 5 April 2013 7:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Analysing process dumps Hi all I'm troubleshooting a runaway process on one of my Exchange 2010 CAS boxes, the CPU is getting hammered and the w3wp.exe process is the culprit. I'm creating process dumps, as I saw suggested on a forum, but is there any tool that can usefully analyse the output without me opening a case with Microsoft PSS? Many thanks Richard ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
