Re: Disk I/O and ASPX Page Processing

From: Martin Dechev (detcheff__at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/24/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:11:12 +0200

Hi,

Even if we suppose that everything is cached and served from the cache,
there will be still disk I/O operations - reading/writing the virtual memory
(the paging file).

Appart from this consideration, on each request for any of the pages (if
these are not served from the cache) the parser will need to read the file
from the disk (I'm not sure the .aspx files are cached by the runtime, but
even if they are, it will need to check whether the file has changed). So,
yes, there will be some disk I/O operations.

Greetings
Martin
"Guadala Harry" <GMan@NoSpam.com> wrote in message
news:eSGsXtZoEHA.3464@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Suppose two different servers (two different physical machines - no
> clustering or farming going on here) on the same network:
> 1: Web Server (2003/IIS6)
> 2: SQL Server
> ... and an ASP.NET Web application running of course on the Web Server.
>
> The Web application serves up a product catalog (Catalog.ASPX); all the
> data that appears on Catalog.ASPX page is retrieved at runtime from the
SQL
> Server database. Users can click a button in the catalog to request
details
> about any item in the catalog - and that detailed info is retrieved from
the
> SQL Server.
>
> My question(s): In the above scenario, when is there disk I/O on the Web
> Server? More specifically...
> Is it true that, for a new Session, on the very first request of
> Catalog.ASPX, the Web Server would *necessarily* read the ASPX page from
> disk and then any code-behind logic processed?
>
> What about on a postback? Suppose a user is viewing the catalog and clicks
a
> button that causes a postback - during which logic in the code-behind of
> Catalog.ASPX causes additional info to be retrieved from the SQL Server
and
> sent down to the browser. During this Postback would there *necessarily*
be
> any disk I/O on the Web server to handle that request?
>
> Would output caching Catalog.ASPX have the ability to completely eliminate
> all disk I/O on the Web server for processing postbacks of Catalog.ASPX
> within a Session?
>
> Please note I'm not asking at all about disk I/O on the SQL Server in the
> above scenario.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -GH
>
>