ocassioanlly slow after upgrading to .net 4.0 - asp.net

We have a decent size web app that was .net 2.0. we upgraded it to .net 4.0 and no occasionally page loads go slow. I would say one out of ten times or so, a refresh and it'll load near instant again but i'm not sure what could cause these hang ups after upgrading to 4.0.
are there any common problems after updating that could cause this?
thanks.

There could be some other reason however the first comes in mind is Application Pool shutdown which may cause a little delay in page load. Have you verified if the random page slowness is caused by your Application Pool is shutdown?
To Verify if it is not related with Application Pool, set AppPool shutdown to 0 so it will not shutdown and then check if page reload still take time.

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IIS 10 on WinServer 2019 is loading asp.net pages very slow even on subsequent loads

My question has nothing to do with the initial page loads. My ASP.NET Web Site is running very slow, on IIS 10. Even when I refresh the page after a load, it takes minutes. What do I need to check?
Application Initialization Module is installed and running
App Pool is using Classic managed Pipeline mode and has Start-Mode set to AlwaysRunning
Preload Enabled in Website's setting is set to true
The same application runs fine on another server running older WinServer and IIS 8. What do I need to check?
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I have an ASP.NET MVC 5 application running on Windows Server 2012 on IIS 8.
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I'm really at a loss, but the only "cure" when the site gets bogged down is to completely delete the application files for the site and redeploy. This does the trick every time and then the site will act snappy again (loading the About page in under 1 second). I seem to have to repeat this ritual every week or 2, or at least once a month (whenever I notice the site is at a crawl).

Recycle and reload application pool on IIS7

Is there a way to recycle and afterwards reload an application pool?
My problem has been slow performance when logging in to my web application. I found out that the "Idle Time-out(minutes)" was sat to 20 by default. This caused the application to terminate when idle so that it can start up again on the next visit. After searching the web i found out that this value could be sat to 0 so it won't terminate. However, the first visit after recycling, an app pool have to create a new w3wp.exe worker process which is slow because the app pool needs to be created, ASP.NET or another framework needs to be loaded, and then the application needs to be loaded. Source right here
This means that every time the app recycles, the first visitor have to wait longer then the other visitors when logging in, doing some stuff and log out.
The web application is using the ISS from Dynamics AX 2009.
Sorry I thought you are working on IIS 7.5
But there was a beta for this in IIS7 actually.
I think you are looking something along the lines of this
A warmup module for IIS 7.5
"IIS Application Initialization for IIS 7.5 enables website administrators to improve the responsiveness of their Web sites by loading the Web applications before the first request arrives. By proactively loading and initializing all the dependencies such as database connections, compilation of ASP.NET code, and loading of modules, IT Professionals can ensure their Web sites are responsive at all times even if their Web sites use a custom request pipeline or if the Application Pool is recycled. While an application is being initialized, IIS can also be configured to return an alternate response such as static content as a placeholder or "splash page" until an application has completed its initialization tasks."
Download Link
http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/application-initialization
And also have a look at this; which basically talks about using warm up classes which comes with ASPNET 4
http://weblogs.asp.net/gunnarpeipman/archive/2010/01/31/asp-net-4-0-how-to-use-application-warm-up-class.aspx
Checkout the suspend option.
IIS now has
Idle Time-out Action : Suspend setting
Suspending is just freezes the process and it is much more efficient than the destroying the process. Because it uses the same process and does not create another one after waking up.

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Here is the problem--After I publish and deploy the application, I log in, and (as expected) it takes about 30 seconds to see the login page. Then I visit every page so that they are compiled (I have used the 'individual file for each page' or whatever option).
So far so good.
Then 10 minutes later i log in and it's near instantaneous. Still good and expected.
Yet the next day, my first logon takes 30 seconds or more again. Nobody changed web.config or copied any new assemblies in the meantime--this I am sure of.
Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? Is there an application timeout (as opposed to a session timeout)? Is there some setting in IIS admin console that I may have left at some default that is not optimal?
Thanks for any help on this,
James
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It's slow again the next day because IIS shuts down apps when they are inactive for some time.
The solution is "Application Initialization". This is built-in in IIS 8 and available out-of-band as a module for IIS 7.5:
http://www.iis.net/learn/get-started/whats-new-in-iis-8/iis-80-application-initialization
There is an Idle Time-Out on the Application Pool under Advanced Settings. Set this to 0 and the application will not stop due to inactivity.

First request is very slow after website sits idle with ASP.NET MVC 3 (IIS7)

I developed a project in ASP.Net MVC 3, my hosting is using iis7 (Win Web Serv 2008 R2), and the first request after the website sit's idle (during about 1-2 hours) is very slow.
I use VPS with 512Mb RAM. Can this be related with a too little RAM?
Can anyone help me with possible causes of such behaviour?
After a certain amount of inactivity IIS unloads the AppDomain. And then the first request loads the application once again which is slower. You could try to configure this period in the properties of IIS but there might also be other causes that an application unloads such as for example a certain threshold of CPU or memory usage is reached. Those thresholds are also configurable in IIS.
That's not something specific for ASP.NET MVC. It's true for all ASP.NET applications in general.
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