Performance problems using ASP.NET 2.0

I have just built my first ASP.NET v2.0 app and have it running on a 3 server web farm that runs several other ASP.NET v1.1 apps. The v1.1 apps run great, but the new v2.0 app always seems to run very slowly when first connecting to the site, even if other users have already visited the site. I believe I have pre-compiled the site, and even if I visit each server in turn to ensure the app has been compiled before hitting the load-balanced url, the site just runs very slowly. On our development machines the site runs very quickly, so the poor performance is a bit of a mystery.

The servers in the farm are running Windows 2003 Server and the machine.config on each server has been updated to syncronize the machine keys.

Check the event viewer to see if the app pool is restarting itself. Some people had problems with the application shutting down and if that's your case then when the app (aspnet) restarts itself the code has to recompile. Any other details that you might find, will help on directing you towards the right path.

hi

are u working with directory. The asp.net 2.0 application restart as soon as the directory structure changes. see the post below

http://vikramlakhotia.com/Post.aspx?postID=6

Hope this helps

Vikram

Vikram's Blog

Did not know that. If that's the case that's a huge bug on asp.net 2.0. It should be reported. Maybe there's a setting on the Machine.Config for the application not to restart when the directory structure changes.
There was nothing in the event viewer for all three servers (relating to asp.net anyway). The slow responses almost feel like every page request is causing the application to be re-built...

I don't know what else to tell you. Maybe you have indexing on and it's getting ahold of the files and thus restarting. Just throwing one out there.

Try creating another app and see how it behaves. If it behaves normal, then the problem is related to your application.