I am not sure how many people are familiar with the great tools that Mark and the Sysinternals folks have created, but this is one that is a must for monitoring the performance of your machine. It is called Process Explorer. With it, you can see what is taking up your CPU time in real time as well as which process has what handles or DLL�s open.
This tool can be used with ASP.NET to keep a quick eye on the performance of your web server. You can add it to your startup folder so it always starts and you can watch things progress in your server and make sure things don�t get out of control. For a great video on using this tool, check out: Go to the complete details ...