I've been working for some time at a super lean IIS 7.5 configuration for a static file serving purposes web site. To achieve this, I've simply stripped the designated web site for all dynamic modules, and only specified native modules such as the StaticFileModule
, AnonymousAuthenticationModule
, HttpCompressionModule
etc.
This has already proved to cause a significant decline in the memory footprint and processing overhead for the worker process, and the overall performance is much better than the default web site.
Now, as a next step, I would like to see if I can trim down the number of modules loaded into memory even further.
I could just remove the modules one-by-one and try to see how it affects performance and functionality, but I would rather investigate what the functionality the individual modules actually has/governs.
Some of the modules are pretty self-explanatory (ie. DefaultDocumentModule
, DirectoryListingModule
), but some are not.
Is there anywhere I can find the documentation for the builtin native modules?