Evan, inside your COM component you can make a call to the windows API to mark the process as low priority. This will prevent the COM component from using 100% of the processor.

Here is the documentation for API function to changes the priority:
http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?example=218&function=350

You can probably test this before you code it by setting the priority of the COM component to low with the Windows Task Manager and see how it behaves.

>Hi folks.
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>I have a few reports that are in a COM EXE. I call these from an ASP.NET page and they can take anywhere from 1 to 9 minutes to complete. When the COM component is called it uses the server CPU almost to 100% and doesn't allow other request to the webserver to be served at all. Rick had warned me of this.
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>Can I throttle back the process or somehow force the process to backoff when another request comes in?