Hello,

We have worked around this by disabling ASP caching on those vhosts where it is requested. Once the customer finishes development work, we re-enabling caching to keep the load down on our filer.

The way to do this is:

- Open the Properties window of the vhost in question in the IIS manager - Under 'Home Directory' set the Application Protection to 'High' - Press 'Configuration' and uncheck 'Cache ISAPI applications'.

This works for us. We've found that if we disable 'Cache ISAPI applications' for the entire web server, the load on our filer and out web servers spikes way, way up. ISAPI caching dramatically increases performance. I just wish that IIS was smart enough to look at something as simple as the 'changed date' on a file to see if it should reload it into cache.

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Jean-Christophe Smith wrote:

We have a cluster of Windows 2000 servers running IIS 5.0, content lives on a NetApp F720 running OnTap Release 5.3.7R2. Our customers use FTP to upload their web pages.

IIS is caching ASP(active server pages), customers will make changes to their ASP files and try to view them(view IIS) and they see the older pages. I read about this issue entitled "5.3 Active Server Page Caching" in the NetApp document "Integrating a NetApp Filer with Microsoft IIS". I understand it is an issue with CIFS change/notify events and the way IIS was designed.

Does anybody know a way of fixing this? or maybe way to increase the change/notify events, or...

For now, we have to restart IIS when changes are made.

Maybe I could write a program to manually induce change/notify events?

Thanks, Jean-Christophe Smith jsmith@publichost.com VitalStream.com