Question

Is there a way to check what a asp.net process is doing in production environment? In Linux, one can run a strace on a process id and know exactly what the process is doing. Can one do something similar on a asp.net process? Googling around tells me that you need to create dump files and then analyze the problem there, but what if I just want to check on the current state of the process? (like cache size, longest running thread, # of the specific object… etc).

Any help would be great.

Thanks

Answer 1

As mentioned by JD, PerfMon may help you out. You should also check out the Windows Sysinternals tools. The two Sysinternal tools that will probably help you out the most are:

• Process Explorer
• Process Monitor