Hi,
 
I'm administering this application (written in C++ with ATL) running under IIS 5. Sometimes (the provider doesn't yet know why), it throws an unmanaged exception. So Windows "kills" the process...well, watching the corresponding DLLHOST process with the Process Explorer, Windows unloads every dll loaded in the DLLHOST process, but it leaves the process "alive" with this files:
 
Unicode.nls
 
Locale.nls
 
 
Sortkey.nls
 
Sorttbls.nls
 
Ctype.nls
 
R000000000967.clb
 
The problem is that I've to kill the process with Task Manager, because even if I take the site down, IIS doesn't wipe this process. And what is the worst: IIS keeps receiving connections for this process, so if I didn't realize that the application was hung, connections keep increasing and lowering the server performance.
 
I would appreciate a hint about why Windows doesn't completely clean this DLLHOST process after the unmanaged exception.
 
 
Thanks,
 
Federico