Hi. I have a server with ColdFusion MX 6.1 Updater1 on Windows 2003
Server.

I am finding that the number of IIS processes is getting out of hand.

I initially had the server setup with the defaults.

My users's use the CFLDAP tag to login to the Web application, and when
they do this, they apparently need to open up several w3wp.exe
processes. When they do this, they quickly hit the IIS worker process
maximum, so I initially increased that limit to a high number (256 or
512).

Eventually, though, they still hit the limit, such as if a bunch of
students all login at the same time. This causes the ColdFusion Server
to crash, giving the "Macromedia Server is unreachable" error. At that
point, I can restart IIS and it will work again.

Can someone explain to me if there is a way to make it launch fewer IIS
processes? If so, what is the change to the server or code that I
need? Also, in general, when does ColdFusion tell IIS 6.0 to open a
new thread?

Thanks,
Matt