I am running an ASP.NET 3.5 website on IIS 6 with Server 2003. Whenever I modify any of the ASPX files, any page on the site then takes about 2-3 minutes before it starts to load. Even the smallest modification causes this to happen.
Why is this?
I believe this is happening because IIS is recompiling your application's modules. You could try pre-compiling your application outside of IIS, which would prevent customer impact.
I've seen this happen in environments that have the following conditions:
Solution:
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