WebAccess warm up

Question

Hello,
my question is:
Every day in the morning, the first access to TFS over WebAccess takes very long. 30 secounds or longer. If the first access is done, the site open after that very quickly.
Are there some options to warm up the App Pool are something like that, that the first access in the morning is faster?

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Thanks, Horst --------------------------------------------------------- MOSS 2007: 2 WFE's, 1 App (CA), 2 SQL 2005 Server - Mirror, 1 TFS 2008

Answer 1

Thanks for your post.

The slowness is because IIS is configured to recycle and shutdown the app pool worker process after a certain minutes idle. You can change the settings in IIS.

IIS doesn't provide any settings to warm up the app pool, but you can use schedule task to achieve it. Use bat file to open IE to navigate to the TFS Web Access's home page at every morning.

Hope it helps.

 

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Answer 2

Hi Wuwu,

Is this issue resolved? Please feel free to let me know if you need futher assistance from me.

Have a nice day.

 

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Answer 3

Hello Honqye,

i was on vocaution last week. Sorry that i have not answered your question.
I have tried this, to open the start page from tfs web access with a batch file.
The problem is not solved because i must type in my credentials and logon to the tfs.
After i have done this, the web access is warmed up and work in a good time.

thanks, best regards,
Horst

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Thanks, Horst --------------------------------------------------------- MOSS 2007: 2 WFE's, 1 App (CA), 2 SQL 2005 Server - Mirror, 1 TFS 2008

Answer 4

Hi wuwu,

If WIWA uses windows integrated authentication and you use your account to run the scheduled the task, it will login automatically.

If it is form authentication, you can warm up TFS AT by running some code by TFS SDK. Here is an example:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb286958.aspx

Hope it helps.

 

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Answer 5

Hi Hongye,

the IIS Pool runs with integrated authentication or where can i check this seeting? WIWA?

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Thanks, Horst --------------------------------------------------------- MOSS 2007: 2 WFE's, 1 App (CA), 2 SQL 2005 Server - Mirror, 1 TFS 2008

Answer 6

Please check this post:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfswebaccess/thread/36cf20fe-2931-4b32-a06c-fc1f9461587e

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