Checklist: Performance Tuning

Check off the following steps for tuning your server’s performance as you become familiar with how to perform them:

• Enabling worker process isolation mode.

• Enabling worker process isolation.

• Manually recycling a worker process.

• Scheduling the recycling of a worker process.

• Configuring idle timeout.

• Setting Http.sys request queue limits.

• Enabling CPU monitoring.

• Using web gardens.

• Enabling health monitoring.

• Enabling orphaning of unhealthy worker processes

• Enabling rapid-fail protection.

• Configuring worker process startup and shutdown time limits.

• Using processor affinity.

• Enabling HTTP keep-alives.

• Enabling HTTP Compression.

• Limiting connections to your site or server.

• Configuring connection timeouts.

• Using bandwidth throttling.

• Using FTP connection monitoring.

• Tuning performance by editing the Registry.

• Tuning performance by editing the metabase.

• Adding more memory or another processor to increase performance.

• Changing the maximize data throughput setting.

• Using RAID disk striping to improve performance.

• Defragmenting drives regularly.

• Choosing the best type of application for optimum performance.

• Using local virtual directories only.

• Disabling indexing and page footers.

• Using clustering.