Pete SheillDeveloper on the CLR teamThe CPU is free, how come my server isnt responding to requests- May 12, 2005 Youve written your web application using all the latest features of .NET. Because some tasks should be done in the background, you invoke them by calling BeginInvoke on a delegate, asking the thread pool to run the task asynchronously. That should have a minute effect on the rest of the system, right Not necessarily. You may see, like we have, a different kind of contention. Its not threads competing for CPU time. Its requests competing for the thread...http://blogs.msdn.com/psheill/archive/2005/05/12/416878.aspx WinDirStat - free disk usage tool- May 10, 2005 One more excellent free tool is WinDirStat. It shows both where the disk space is going, as well as what it is going toward, based on file type, in a clean graphical way. In just a few clicks you can clean up gigabytes of unneeded data. I found many .pdb files on my machine I didn't need. Even if you have a huge hard drive, fewer files means faster defragmentation and faster virus scans. Highly recommended.http://blogs.msdn.com/psheill/archive/2005/05/10/416003.aspx |