Does an IIS web garden use threads or processes?

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When you set an application pool's Maximum Worker Processes attribute in IIS are you actually setting the number of processes or the number of threads?

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These are processes (w3wp instances). Each process will have multiple threads.

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Does an IIS web garden use threads or processes?

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