vsjitdebugger.exe (Visual Studio Debugger) - shows up lots in my task manager in production server

Question

I\'ve got a .net web site which runs on IIS. Once every few days I look at the task manager and I\'ve got 10-15 vsjitdebugger.exe processes open. Each one ties up some connectio

Answer 1

It sounds like the machine is configured to automatically run the debugger if an unhandled exception occurs in the process. You don't want this in a production server but instead likely want it to terminate the process. This behavior is controlled by the DbgManagedDebugger key in the registry. Here is the documentation for that key

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2ac5yxx6.aspx