The other day
IIS6.0 on a win2003 svr decided, following a reboot, to start dishing out image files with 1 sec gaps in between, resulting in very slow load times for all users.

Ethereal showed that there were no network/latency/dns issues, procmon showed nothing unusual, same for perfmon on the relevant counters. The issue seemed to be definitely be with one of the IIS processes.

Turns out, there was a third party program - NewAtlanta's Servlet Exec - installed, but not running. Anyway, after speaking with one of their techs, turns out there's a specific hotfix for the issue. As it turns out, didnt need to actually apply it, it was just a quick mod of the web.properties file and bingo, problem went away.

True story.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 14:24, 7 replies)

LoL.
You strange person.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 24 Sep 2009, 14:26, closed)

I'm hoping that this is an biting criticism of a lot of the answers to this qotw
along the lines of:

"blah blah numbers blah blah meaningless words blah blah LOL"
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 14:27, closed)

The other day and True story
As for the rest- wibble wibble wibble
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 14:28, closed)

to be fair to you
the QotW conspicuously fails to state "tell use your interesting and/or amusing stories".

therefore this gets a click.
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 15:27, closed)

thankyou!
thats exactly what it thought. I;ve got at least 30-40 thousand more I shall be imparting.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 17:16, closed)

That's all very well...
...but did you check the angle of the dangle of the dongle?
(superscape blames it on the bogie, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 20:25, closed)

Ethereal?
Wireshark, surely.
( argyleblanket The man on the roof works for me, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 21:26, closed)