What is worker process recycling…?

Question

1. I would like to know what is exactly worker process recycling?
2. What exactly it does at the time of worker process recycling?
3. Worker process resides in ap

Answer 1

Worker process recycling just means the restart of the asp .net worker process (aspnet_wp.exe) . It's done due to various reasons. The following article describes things quite decently. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc759005(WS.10).aspx

Please go through it.