I will offer this just as another avenue for thought: I had the same thing
happen to a dedicated server my webhost had set up for a client of mine and
it was because the webhost did not protect the default smtp virtual server
against mail relaying. Every spammer in the world was connecting and sending
mail through that server (over a billion messages!). You might want to
double check the relay options for your site's default smtp server to ensure
that it does not allow relaying.
Mark
http://www.sagecomputerservices.com/ "Hayden Bluth Jr." <ruuk2k@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I am having trouble isolating an issue where IIS pausing
> for seconds OR minutes at random intervals throughout the
> day. There are no event logs or error messages
> generated. How can I troubleshoot this?
>
> My environment is 4 Windows 2000 Servers running IIS 5
> behind a load balancer. Now only 2 of the servers seem
> affected. These 2 servers run the same sites and
> software, just load-balanced.
>
> When the site-slowness occurs, I can be logged into the
> servers and see the site slow-down even in the local
> browser. Which leads me to believe that it is not a
> bandwidth nor a load balancer issue. Also, all other
> server apps and functions seem un-affected. Just IIS.
>
> Now these 2 servers pull their dynamic content off of
> another server (file server) - but then again, so do all
> servers, including the un-affected ones. This is done
> via UNC path.
>
> Where can I begin to isolate this issue? I have run
> perfmon for 30 days now with various counters and can
> find nothing. I also adjusted the RPC MaxCmds etc as
> pointed out in MS Q221790. 
