#11 Poor Performance on IIS 6.0
I have 2 servers running identical web applications. Both servers have Windows Server 2003, IIS 6.0, and .NET 1.1.4322. The configuration for both sites is identical. The hardware is the only thing that I can see that is different. Server A has dual 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon processors and 1 GB of RAM. Server B has dual 3.06 GHz Intel Xeon processors and 2.5 GB of RAM. When I run comparisons with a basic ASP.NET web application, server B outperforms server A as you would expect. When I run comparisons with an ASP.NET web application built on the Maverick.NET framework, server A outperforms server B. Here are the results of a test that I ran in ACT:
Server A:
# of Requests: 596
Avg. Requests / Sec.: 4.97
Avg. Time to first byte (msec): 125.28
Server B:
# of Requests: 145
Avg. Requests / Sec.: 1.21
Avg. Time to first byte (msec): 797.54
What can I do to improve the performance of server A? I've read and followed several recommendations for optimizing the Maverick configuration settings.
