CreateObject - Page Cannot be Displayed

[TonyRosen]

Okay ... I have an ASP which is creating a page with information pulled from an SQL database.

Within this page, there are scripts (via an include) that generates a PPT and saves the PPT file to the server.

When I run the page without the PPT scripts, the page loads in one second .... when I put the PPT scripts in the page, it creates the file, saves the file, and then displays me a "Page Cannot Be Displayed" page ... I've set the timeouts on the server to high (high being 900), and have set the timeout at the top of the ASP page to 3600 ... However, as of right now, I'm thinking that it's not the ASP page, but either the PPT scripts or the Server itself.

Once I receive the "Page Cannot Be displayed" message, nothing works for a few minutes and then everything starts working again.

Any ideas on what causes this? And, what can I do to fix it?

 

[TonyRosen]

I should add ....

If I go into IIS Manager and "Pause" and "Start" the website, the delay ends until the next time I try to run the PPT script

 

[schase]

it sounds to me like you have either a problem with the code (likely) that is eating up server resources or there is just such a sheer amount of processing that you need to split it over several pages.

If you've narrowed it to the PPT scripts, try to narrow it further - as much as you can.

Stuart