title: Server 2008 RC2, IIS 7.5, ASP.NET and Requests Queued Poor Performance
body: <p>I already know the answer to this, but wanted to share with the community since it is NOT documented from Microsoft.</p>
  
  <p>The scenario: A surge of traffic hits your IIS 7.5 ASP.NET website, and you notice that requests start queuing up. The performance of the site slows to a crawl, yet you have plenty of CPU and RAM available.</p>
  
  <p>This is the problem we saw recently with a site that made a bunch of internal web-service calls. An internal health check would start timing-out, which would cause this server to drop out of our cluster. (However, this server is the most powerful hardware of the bunch ...)</p>