Seeing if we can freeze up again tonight
I have the KB974417 back on the blog tonight hoping it will slow down again so I can catch the blogs slowing down again. Why? Debugging is why. And we want to force a dump of the IIS processes. Now last night it worked fine right after I rebooted the server and when I logged back in later in the evening a few hours later was when I noticed the server was crawling.
So I'm hoping it will do it again and I can catch the hang in action.
Watch it... it will work fine tonight and not freeze up. There are times that sometimes removing and reinstalling a patch makes it play nice the second time around. Maybe it needs to be shown who's boss or something.
But if you later on hit the blog site and it's realllllly slow.. that means I'll be going "hooray it's freezing up again and I can run this debugger and see what's up". Okay yeah so I'm kinda weird that whenever something gets to the point where I'm installing the debugging tools I'm having fun, but hey...
Generally speaking, Microsoft always recommends to install security updates for the security consideration. There may be some conflicts existed after installing this update. I wonder whether it is possible for you to re-install the update and help to catch IIS hang dump files when you find the web server is hanging. In this way, we could find the root cause of your problem. Please follow below steps to collect IIS hang dump files for us:
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Download and install the Microsoft Debuggers
If your server is a 32-bit, please download and install the Microsoft Debuggers from<http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/installx86.mspx> (Debugging Tools for Windows).
If your server is a 64-bit, please download and install the Microsoft Debuggers from <http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/install64bit.mspx#> (Debugging Tools for Windows).
Get the latest version of the debuggers from this site if multiple versions are present.
NOTE: You do not have to install them on your server, but can install on a workstation and then XCOPY the directory to your server. They will work on your server after you have done this without rebooting the server.
When you find the server come to crawl after re-install the update
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1.Run AutoDump Plus from a command line (cmd.exe), in the debugger's directory (Default is c:\Program Files\Debugging Tools For Windows) run the command (changing the path where you would like the files created in):
cscript adplus.vbs -hang -iis -o c:\iisdump –quiet
2. Wait for 60 seconds
3. Run command "cscript adplus.vbs -hang -iis -o c:\iisdump -quiet" again to generate another IIS dump files.
Please ignore any warnings. Please don’t log off the logon user and don’t close any command prompt window the tool generates. After a while, you should find the dump file in C:\iisdump.
Please send me all the files in c:\iisdump. Please also collect the HTTP ERR logs under C:\Windows\System32\logfiles\HTTPERR and IIS logs under C:\Windows\System32\logfiles for me.
Read the complete post at http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2009/10/14/seeing-if-we-can-freeze-up-again-tonight.aspx