web servers - why do they slow down?

[venkatesh01]

please any body could tel me the major reason for time delay in web servers..my application is taking around 20-30 seconds for retireving data

[jhardman]

please any body could tel me the major reason for time delay in web servers..my application is taking around 20-30 seconds for retireving data

What is it trying to do? I have found the major things that delay me are:
1- sending email
2- connecting to multiple dbs
3- very long loops

Jared

[venkatesh01]

What is it trying to do? I have found the major things that delay me are:
1- sending email
2- connecting to multiple dbs
3- very long loops

Jared

hi
my project server has been migrated to another location,as u mentioned we face problem in retrieving data from database.
i ll really thankful if u can gimme ideas to optimize response time of my server

[jhardman]

Are you connecting to the db via DSN, or with a file path?

Show a sample code snippet and maybe it'll give me ideas.

Jared

[venkatesh01]

Are you connecting to the db via DSN, or with a file path?

Show a sample code snippet and maybe it'll give me ideas.

Jared

hi,
No problem in code,response time was good when our web server in previous location .what i want now is how can i improve the web server performance.hope u can get me

[jhardman]

hi,
No problem in code,response time was good when our web server in previous location .what i want now is how can i improve the web server performance.hope u can get me

no .

[venkatesh01]

no .

i generally want to know the factors which can affect performance of a web server

[codezilla94]

I had the same problem. The reason is that the application domain times out every 20 mins if there is no activity, the first request after the timeout can force a recompile and reload of cache. Changing some settings in the machine.config file will solve the problem; unfortunately for me my hosting provider would not allow me to make this change. I found this utility to be useful.

http://www.spikesolutions.net/ViewSolution.aspx?ID=c2b7edc0-5de1-4064-a432-05f6eded3b82

Essentially it "Pings" my home page every few mins so the application domain does not time out. The utility can also be configured to ping more than one page so that auxiliary pages are fast too.

[venkatesh01]

I had the same problem. The reason is that the application domain times out every 20 mins if there is no activity, the first request after the timeout can force a recompile and reload of cache. Changing some settings in the machine.config file will solve the problem; unfortunately for me my hosting provider would not allow me to make this change. I found this utility to be useful.

http://www.spikesolutions.net/ViewSolution.aspx?ID=c2b7edc0-5de1-4064-a432-05f6eded3b82

Essentially it "Pings" my home page every few mins so the application domain does not time out. The utility can also be configured to ping more than one page so that auxiliary pages are fast too.

thanks a lot for ur reply....i do have access to machine.config,so could u please tell me what are the changes should be made in machine.config in this regard....

thanks in advance

[olddocks]

Looks like you are getting more traffic/visitors :)

just optimize mysql and apache. There could be extra modules in apache that might slow down. Also do a check about mysql memory usage.

[venkatesh01]

Looks like you are getting more traffic/visitors :)

just optimize mysql and apache. There could be extra modules in apache that might slow down. Also do a check about mysql memory usage.

hi
exactly as u said we getting into traffic bottleneck...but we use foxpro database could you please tel me optimization releated to this.