High IIS Priority

[quantumdigital]

We would like to know how to make our IIS run in as a high priority process upon startup, with no user input everytime it recycles. Right now, everytime our w3wp.exe process recycles itself, we have to go to task manager and set the process to high. We are using windows 2k3 with service pack one installed.

We have checked around Google and that without much luck. If someone could give us some input on this, that would great.

Thanks in advance.

[tain]

START /HIGH C:\PATH\TO\.EXE

[CoffeeFiend]

START /HIGH C:\PATH\TO\.EXE

That won't work, it's not like he starts the worker processes manually.

Don't know if he's still around and looking for an answer, but priority saver will do what he wants, and it's free too. Very stable and all (part of my unattended install, got it on every PC, very nice app)

[tain]

Wouldn't it work if you used something like sustain.exe to launch/sustain? Or does the START method not enable child processes to inherit the parent's priority?

Wow, that really was an old topic. It was near the bottom of this forum page, but still on page one. I hadn't noticed that it was so old!

[CoffeeFiend]

I hate to bump threads for the sake of bumping threads, but I think I should, just in case anyone decided to look into that priority saver app - which seemed pretty good. The features are nice at least.

Too bad it BSODs your box! You get a lovely DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL inside prio.sys @ prio+1405

There's some nasty network driver that ships with it (not that I ever wanted the network part of it, just the processes one). That's one app I'm never trusting again!