*sounds* like some flooding...cehc your connections table (netstat -an). Also, Windows 2k has some syn flood protections mechanisms: http://www.colorado.edu/its/windows2000/adminguide/iis5secguidelines.html#synflood
-scm On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Hiro Protagonist wrote: > I'm in charge of a windows 2000 server running IIS with all current patches > for a part of my company. we are using ASP pages to serve content that is > primarily used internally by our employees. Lately we have been getting a > lot of "500 server too busy" errors so I began running performance logs on > the server. they show a very high # of connections (like over 3000) without > any corresponding increase in pages being served. It seems that somebody is > just opening the connection and letting it sit. Has anybody else run across > this before and if so what can I do about it? > > Thanks > Hiro > > > "I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past" -Thomas > Jefferson > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com >
