UNC-based Caching Scenarios

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Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 with SP1

The following three scenarios illustrate the different UNC–based caching options in more detail and provide recommendations for setting maximum values:

  • Wide content, low traffic. This scenario is an example of a typical low-end shared hosting server.

  • Wide content, high traffic. This scenario represents an enterprise Web site that hosts hundreds of small applications and receives a high volume of traffic consisting mainly of anonymous users.

  • Narrow content, high traffic. This scenario represents a dedicated hosted Web site with fewer than 10 applications, but with a very high volume of traffic consisting only of anonymous users.

When evaluating the settings in the tables in the following sections, consider the number of simultaneous work items that are opened from the server running IIS to the remote file server, but reflected (inversely) by the value of the MaxCmds entry. You should calculate all other remote file server settings based on that result.

Important

The settings in the following scenarios are intended as guidelines only. Changing the registry settings listed here will produce different results, depending on your specific system configuration. You should test your application with the default settings, and then increase the maximum settings accordingly.