IIS: web applications warmup

.net asp.net wcf performance iis-6
usman shaheen picture usman shaheen · Jan 14, 2010 · Viewed 23.4k times · Source

After IIS reset, first hit taking a long time because AppPool is starting and other .NET components, DB connections are initializing.

What would be the best way to warm up IIS applications and preload required components (e.g. GAC Assemblies, WCF, WWF libraries)

I'm working on IIS 6, Windows 2003 server x64

(I know there is warmup module for IIS 7, but I'm on IIS 6.how that warmup module in IIS 7 works internally?)

Answer

IrishChieftain picture IrishChieftain · Jan 14, 2010

Some tips on warm up scripts:

http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2006/08/21/3882.aspx

More info on the IIS site:

http://blogs.iis.net/steveschofield/archive/2009/05/30/application-pool-warm-up.aspx

Check out the latest news under "Auto-Start Web Applications" section here:

http://www.asp.net/LEARN/whitepapers/aspnet4/default.aspx

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