IIS6 and Server 2003 serves Asp.Net SLOW

[miserabledutchm]

Hi all

I've looked all over the web, but each thread I find keeps moaning about how the .Net web application needs to be not in debug and coded properly and all that.

I'll pre-empt some possible responses by saying the following:

None of that helps me because the application i'm needing to use is a 3rd party app, so i cant change it, and i wouldn't want to because it runs reasonably on other servers. also, it's not the only one site on the server that runs slow. there is one other web-app that consists of a single page just to test, basically it prints back the querystring. slow slow slow.

Can anyone give me some concise answers as to what should be set to what where? I am convinced that this is an IIS config issue, but if i'm wrong then so be it.

thanks in advance!

[svidgen]

Well, what's different between your server and the servers this 3rd party app runs "reasonably" on?

I doubt anyone here will be able to tell you anything more than, "turn debugging off", "make sure you have enough RAM", and "make sure you're not trying to run a modern web app on an old POS."

[miserabledutchm]

already svidgen has given me something i can use.

other than that...

just looking for some quick pointers that i can use to google for answers using words i havent googled with before.

incidentally, i've seen some other sites by other people on other servers that suffer from the same symptoms - slow load first time, then ever so slightly better once the initial compilation has happened, but all round still not as quick as to be usable... my guess is that those .net sites that probably run with debug mode code behind slim pipes, but apart from that...

again, remember that this same 3rd party app runs much more quickly on another server, so much so that a regular user thereof on that server remarked on how slowly it ran on the server i'm using.

what makes an iis6 setup server .net pages slow compared to the perfect setup?

:confused:application pool configs?

:confused:iis config somewhere somehow?

:confused: is there something i could look for in event viewer that could give me a clue?

:D should i can the entire thing and use linux with apache instead?