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6/15/2010 12:05 PM

A Russell

Joined: 6/15/2010

Posts: 2

DNN slow

Afternoon,

I have a two dedicated VM's both with two cpus and 4 gig assigned to each (the host machine has more then sufficent capacity) one is the web server, the second is the database server.

One is running 05.01.04 (3) which is blistering fast
The second is running 05.04.02 which is slow

Both have keep alives running so its not the application loading.

Web server is windows server 2003 sp2 x86
database server is windows server 2008 with sql 2008 x64

The slow one isnt customised yet accept some styling. The fast one is heavily styled and customised.

Both are running community editions.

Neither are production machines, and are VM's so we can get messy in playing with them if needs be..

Any ideas what i can test to trial performance.

Cheers

Andrew

6/15/2010 9:27 PM

Paul Scarlett

www.tressleworks.ca
Joined: 4/16/2004

Posts: 493

Re: DNN slow

Andrew,

I am a little confused here ... you speak of two VM and two instances of DNN. The way it reads - to me - is one instance of DNN exists on each VM - is that correct?

Or do you have both DNN instances on the Web Server VM and both of the DNN site reference the Database VM?

Please clarify. If the first case, then I would suggest moving the slow DNN instance to the same VM as the other.

Paul.

6/16/2010 4:34 AM

A Russell

Joined: 6/15/2010

Posts: 2

Re: DNN slow

One VM is the webserver, which is running the DNN sites, the second VM is the database server which is running the DNN databases. Its so we can replicate our production server.

Everything else on the server is fast except this one DNN site.

Andrew

7/28/2010 8:44 PM

Adrian Correa Moreno

Joined: 2/23/2004

Posts: 30

Re: DNN slow

Googling here and there, I found that DNN sites actually are "put aside" by the server if they´re not called very often, and because of that, these sites have to be some sort of "reloaded" (maybe recompiled JIT) when called again. That appeared to be the reason why our new DNN-based sites usually take so looong to load.

I started to think: "If there were something I could give a list of my sites and a certain lapse of time between them, so that this something could request them from the server... OMG, that would be great!" I realized I could write that something, and... behold "WakeUpDNN"

http://www.wakeupdnn.com/
It's free... obviously. And its website is, off course, made with DNN.

7/29/2010 1:13 AM

Bruce Chapman

www.dnnsoftware.com
Joined: 12/7/2005

Posts: 792

Re: DNN slow

Adrian Ivanov Correa Moreno wrote:
Googling here and there, I found that DNN sites actually are "put aside" by the server if they´re not called very often, and because of that, these sites have to be some sort of "reloaded" (maybe recompiled JIT) when called again. That appeared to be the reason why our new DNN-based sites usually take so looong to load.

Please stop spamming the forums. This type of post belongs in community announcements, and only needs to be posted once. Finding every performance related thread and spamming it isn't cool.

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