ASP.NET on Server 2003 - Painfully Slow to Process Page?

[Marc Castrechini]

Forgive me on the lack of specifics but I am not a "server" guy.

We just rolled our code out to a 2003 Server from Win2k Server and for some
reason our pages are painfully slow. It appears the pages process fine (by
spinning globe and 100% status bar. But then there is a dead wait time while
it must be processing the request.redirect.

Server 2003
IIS 6.0
Framework 1.1.4322.573
Windows Authentication (Was using local users/groups on Win2k, now using AD
accounts but trying to duplicate old user/group behavior)

The system does work 100%, Authentication and group identification as well.
Just a painfull wait time before pages.

Everything worked beautifully on the new server for a short time. Not sure
what changed.

I hope this provides some insight, more detail will happily be provided
where necessary.

TIA
- Marc

 

[Curt_C [MVP]]

all calls or just the first?
do you have the app pool expiring too soon?
is the worker process in the task manager pegged really high?

 

[Morgan]

Look in the event log for excessive asp_net service entries, which may
indicate excessive restarts, which will cause the server to appear slow.

 

[Marc Castrechini]

After looking at the Event Log I actually found the problem. As part of our
normal error handling and tracking we write to a custom Event Log category.
That was not happening on the server and when we removed it from our
authentication/roles code it runs fine.

I will try to figure out what was happening but I am good with the Slow to
Process page issue.

Thanks for your help

- Marc