ASP.NET Worker processes and shared resources

[Abhishek Srivastava]

Hello All,

I am reading about the worker process based architecture of ASP.NET.
What I am wondering is how do they use the shared resources like the
connection pool to the database.

DB connection pools are in-memory things. Now If I have 5 worker
processes running and I have set my max connection pool size to 20 for
my application.

will each worker run with 4 connections? or will each worker process
create a pool of size 20 thereby opening a total of 100 connections to
my db?

Each time a worker process gets re-cycled, is there anyway with which I
can tell it to execute a peice of code (a kind of contructor) before it
starts taking requrest?

Thanks for your help in advance.

regards,
Abhishek.