Important tips for Web server plug-in tuning include how to balance workload and improve performance in a high stress environment. Balancing workloads among application servers in a network fronted by a Web server plug-in helps improve request response time.
Limiting the number of connections that can be established with an application server works best for Web servers that follow use a single, multithreaded process for serving requests.
ServerLimit 1 ThreadLimit 1024 StartServers 1 MaxClients 1024 MinSpareThreads 1 MaxSpareThreads 1024 ThreadsPerChild 1024 MaxRequestsPerChild 0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\tcpip\Parameters\TcpTimedWaitDelayIf this entry does not exist in your Windows Registry, create it by editing this entry as a new DWORD item.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\tcpip\Parameters\MaxUserPortIf this entry does not exist in your Windows Registry, create it by editing this entry as a new DWORD item.
See the Microsoft® Web site for more information about these settings.