IIS App Pools - Stop/Start vs Recycle

Question

I\'ve noticed that on one of my production web apps, when I manually recycle an app pool, the recycled worker process can take upwards of 60+ seconds to actually be completely d

Answer 1

a) Because of Overlapped Recycling. There is a time period that the "old" process waits for the new one to start.

b) No. As far as I know.