Charlie:
Huh...i'm working as a systems architect and i just finished buildning reasonably big IIS 5.0 -powered bank-system with pretty hard load. We have no perfomance issues yet, even tough we run both IIS and SQL on same (dual-processor) machine. I cannot speak of NT, as we built system on W2k Server and IIS 5.0, but Wayne's description sounds like cache issues with images in cache timing out after 15 minutes and needing reload again:
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The BBS pages will load lightning quick, but then the images come in much, much slower. Sometimes 5-10 seconds later.
- This only occurs the first time that you load up a page on the BBS. Subsequent loads are fast
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NT file-caching has little to do with IIS as long as you are running dynamicaly-created site as Pelican BBS and have enough RAM (which Wayne obviously has). This applies to sites generated from MS SQL-database (which fits nicely into IIS)...
On the other hand, i heard that Ultimate BBS (which Wayne uses) runs on top of it's own proprietary raw file-based database and not on modern SQL-like relational databases, so file caching might influence speed in that case...
Cheers!
P.S.
I'm browsing this forum trough DSL and never notice any speed problems...