performance question

[TravisLaborde]

On Windows 2000 Server, we're running IIS, and have both ASP.OLD and ASP.NET (1.1) installed.

On one particular ASP.NET page, it calls out to a WebService on another machine, and it's a very long running request.

What I think we're noticing is that when this page is called, other people who are accessing pages on the same IIS box (not the WebService box) experience heavy slowdows. This is on ASP.OLD pages even.

I'm not sure if one is the cause of the other. Is this possible? I mean, I understand that if one of the ASP pages is doing lots of work, that it would hamper performance of the other pages, because they are all running on the same IIS server, but in this case the slow running process is on another machine entirely.

While ServerA is waiting for a response from ServerB, would that cause other requests to ServerA to be slowed?

Thanks!

 

[Shift838]

Your server is doing nothing more than making a request from a different server. If it is taking a substantial amount of time to process the data and return it to the requesting server then I would look at the server that the request is being made to.

 

[Shift838]

Also depending on what the request is could make the server take longer for the request. Just depends on what the server is being asked to do as well has how much available memory and cpu processes are available at the time.

 

[TravisLaborde]

Thanks for the replies but... I'm not sure I asked the question properly....

ServerA is IIS and hosts many asp and asp.net pages. This is the server everyone "knows" about and connects to.

ServerB is also IIS but hosts WebServices, which are used in turn by ServerA.

One particular WebService on ServerB is very long running.

One particular page on ServerA calls the slow WebService.

What I'm wondering is: If someone is currently browsing to the page on ServerA that calls the slow WebService, and is waiting for that return, would that cause other people who are browsing to OTHER PAGES on ServerA to have a slow response time?

Thanks,
Travis