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Handle Trace?

using too much traffic?

         

too much information

11:56 pm on Dec 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Ok, I received an e-mail from my hosting service today concerning two sites. Both are aparently using over 1GB of server memory and I have no idea why. They sent me, "A handle trace of the files/folders in use by your website" which I do not understand, can someone help me to decypher this? (edited to remove domain name of course)

DLLHOST.EXE pid: 2604 WEB28\IWAM _ WEB28
18: File C:\WINNT\system32
d0: Section \BaseNamedObjects\__R_000000000134_SMem__
104: File C:\websites\foldername\foldername\secure
34c: File C:\WINNT\system32\inetsrv\ASP.DLL
35c: File C:\WINNT\system32\STDOLE2.TLB
48c: Section \BaseNamedObjects\ASP_PERFMON_MAIN_BLOCK
490: Section \BaseNamedObjects\ASP_PERFMON_BLOCK_6b5066764a81676d2b489a9069a7b510
494: File C:\websites\foldername\foldername
4d8: File C:\websites\foldername\foldername\logs
4e0: File C:\websites\foldername\foldername\scripts
520: File C:\websites\foldername\foldername\security
550: File C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\ado\msado15.dll
588: File C:\websites\foldername\foldername\articles
5a0: File C:\websites\foldername\foldername\linkmax
5d4: File C:\websites\foldername\foldername\linkmax\scripts
5fc: File C:\WINNT\system32\msxml3.dll
8dc: File C:\WINNT\system32\scrrun.dll
964: Section \BaseNamedObjects\UrlZonesSM_IWebmasterWorldEB28
988: Section \BaseNamedObjects\SENS Information Cache
a10: File C:\Program Files\Persits Software\AspEmail\BIN\AspEmail.dll

Now the only thing common to both sites is that they both use ASP, an Access database, and both have my own traffic log system that writes to a text file for every hit on the site.

Could the log file script be the problem? If I have a high amount of traffic this could cause an increase in server memory usage, but I am not sure it would be more than my average monthly bandwidth usage which is around 1GB/month.

too much information

12:33 am on Dec 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Well, problem solved. At least for one domain.

The problem is that my site is used to view images which are loaded from other domains. Like a cart system. In order to help with load time I have a thumbnail script that thumbs the images before displaying so that the owners of the images don't have to.

Aparently my site is extremely popular because my log file for the day is 90% calls for this script. Good for my ego, but bad for the server aparently.

Does anyone have a thumbnail script that will not put a load on a server's memory? or is this just a problem with dynamically generated thumbnails?