Re: major iis5 asp performance problems

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From: John Cesta (lists_at_lookwww.com)
Date: 07/21/04


Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:42:16 -0400


> The environment is: Win2K Pro SP4, 128MB ram per box (we cannot
> upgrade this so don't tell me we need more RAM), IE 6.0.2800.1106
> SP1, IIS5

If the solution is to add more ram, which is very likely, the fact you can't upgrade won't help your situation. If you need more ram then is really no substitute for that.

128 mb isn't much ram to be running IIS or such tests.

John Cesta

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On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:58:01 -0400, tparks69 wrote:
> OK we have a set of laptop computers each running IIS5.  Every
> laptop is a virtual clone of each other.  We have a web app running
> on the localhost on each laptop.  On most of the laptops, the
> response time between ASP pages is in the 1 second range.  On other
> machines, the response time is terrible... in 30+ seconds per page
> (I've heard up to 6 minutes per page from users).
> When I watch the inetinfo and dllhost processes in the task
> manager, I note the following differences in the bad machines vs
> the good ones:
> Good:  inetinfo.exe process starts out with around 4MB of memory
> Bad:    inetinfo.exe is only getting like 1-2MB of memory
> Good:  dllhost starts out with around 10MB memory, goes up to 11-
> 12MB when calling our VB COM+ dlls to post/process data, then goes
> back to 10MB after page loaded. (again, page loads in like 1 second)
> Bad:    dllhost starts out with around 10MB, but shoots up to 50-60
> sometimes 80MB while processing the page.  during this time the
> harddrive light is almost constantly on.  (the page is taking 30+
> seconds to load)
> I don't think the application code is the problem since on most
> boxes pages load in < 1 second.  Keep in mind there is only one
> user at a time on the site as it is running local and disconnected.
> I have looked at:
> - Virtual memory settings
> - IIS performace tab settings
> - caching settings in IE
> - running COM+ objects in library application instead of server
> application
> - shutting down extraneous services to conserve memory
> - changing the IIS max memory settings in the registry
> - defragging the harddrive
> and more.... none of these things have helped.
> The environment is: Win2K Pro SP4, 128MB ram per box (we cannot
> upgrade this so don't tell me we need more RAM), IE 6.0.2800.1106
> SP1, IIS5
> I was wondering if one of you guru's out there might have some
> suggestions... we're pretty desperate here, so any help is
> appreciated.
> Thanks!
> Tom



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