From: "Robert Comer" 

That sounds pretty good.

- Bob Comer 



"Geo."  wrote in message
news:3e6bb339$1{at}w3.nls.net... More info on the changes in IIS6


      Feature Description
      New Request-Processing Architecture  With the new request-processing
architecture, IIS 6.0 automatically detects memory leaks, access
violations, and other errors. When these conditions occur, the underlying
architecture provides fault tolerance and the ability to restart processes
as necessary. Meanwhile, IIS 6.0 continues to queue requests without
interrupting the user experience.
      Health Detection IIS 6.0 is capable of monitoring the health of worker
processes, applications, and Web sites. It can detect the status of worker
process as well as recycle worker processes based on various factors
including uptime, a designated schedule, number of requests, and memory
consumption. Or it can recycle worker processes on demand.
      Site Scalability IIS 6.0 has improved the way the operating system
uses internal resources. For example, IIS 6.0 does not pre-allocate
resources at initialization time. Many more sites can be hosted on a single
server running IIS 6.0, and a larger number of worker processes can be
concurrently active. Starting up and shutting down a server is faster
compared with earlier versions of IIS. All of these improvements contribute
to increased site scalability with IIS 6.0.
      New Kernel Mode Driver, HTTP.SYS Windows Server 2003 introduces a new
kernel mode driver, HTTP.SYS, for HTTP parsing and caching, providing
increased scalability and performance. IIS 6.0 is built on top of HTTP.SYS
and is specifically tuned to increase Web server throughput. In addition,
HTTP.SYS directly processes requests in the kernel under specific
circumstances.

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