Memory Profiling: Determining Application Pool Process ID

To track the memory usage of an Application Pool in IIS 6.0, we first have to determine the Process ID (PID). The PID can easily be determined using the following steps;

1. Open a command prompt
2. Browse to C:\Windows\System32
3. Run cscript iisapp.vbs

A list of application pools with their relevant process id's will now be displayed. Using Task Manager or Performance Monitor, the memory consumption of the process can now be tracked.

To track the memory usage of an Application Pool in IIS 7.0, we have to go through the same process of determining the Process ID using the following steps,

1. Open a command prompt
2. Browse to C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv
3. As shown below run appcmd list wps

A list of application pools with their relevant process id's will now be displayed in " ".