Warm up of project server application

[Joe]

Hello Project Server gurus:

The Project Web Access application pages take a solid minute or more
to load in the morning.

My research indicates that it's either the SQL connections timing out
(set at 16.67 hours, so unlikely), or that the IIS clears its cache at
some point in the night.

So two solutions are to install the WakeUp script from codeplex:
http://www.codeplex.com/SPWakeUp

or to set the IIS cache to simply not discard it's cache.

I'm looking for suggestions on which would be the better course of
action.

Much appreciated,
Joe

 

[Ben Howard]

Hi Joe, what's best, well I would use the warmup tool as it therefore
provides "fresh" content. Apparently it's to do with the JIT compilation of
the WSS pages....

 

[Gary L. Chefetz]

Joe:

I second Ben's recommendation. It's always better to take out the trash each
night because sooner or later it's going to start stinkin' the place up.Keep
in mind that the system goes back to sleep after a while so you might have
to issue multiple wake-up calls to maintain instant gratification throughout
the day unless you run a very active system.

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[Ben Howard]

And thinking about this, a minute is a long time. I've seen that on my VM
here, but never on a live system. Is the system resource constrained at all?
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[Gary L. Chefetz]

It takes a lot longer than that running the Litware demon on my
ultraportable!<g>

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[Joe]

Thanks for the recommendation gurus!

We set up a script to ping the addresses each morning, to warm up the
application. So far, it's worked beautifully.