IIS 7 Worker Processes
Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager 7 includes a very nifty feature called Worker Processes. This feature will allow you to see information about the Worker Processes (w3wp.exe) for the sites running on the server. If you’ve ever run Task Manager on your server and see several w3wp.exe processes killing your machine (high CPU usage), this is where you want to go. This feature will identify the Process ID of the Worker Processes and also tell you the associated application pool, very helpful in telling you which sites are killing your server.
You can also click into the worker process and view the current requests that are being processed, including the current requested url, client ip, and the time elapsed for the request. Again, very helpful information.
To access this feature, click on Start and then the Run command. Type in inetmgr to launch the IIS Manager Console. In the left pane “Connections” click on your server. On the right pane, you’ll have the feature view. There’s a section called IIS, and one of the last icons should be labeled, “Worker Processes”. Double click, and it will display all the current worker processes. Double click on a process and you’ll see the current requests. You can repeatedly click “Show All” to refresh.
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