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Asked: 2026-06-09T23:41:29+00:00

I’m using EF 4 on my web site and have found a very disturbing

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I’m using EF 4 on my web site and have found a very disturbing problem – the first run load time is extremely slow. (about 20-30 seconds).
After the first run – it will work really fast.

What I mean by “first run” is a run after some long time of no activity (10 minutes or so).

So, if there is a lot of traffic, the site is working just fine. If there are slow days – the first one to come to the site after a long traffic break, will get a very bad experience.

Because the web site also exposes an API – the same happens there. The first to call it – will get a timeout on his side.

My DB is SQL Server 2008 R2.

Any ideas why this is happening? How to resolve?

Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Could be EF, but just as likely could be that your app pool is getting recycled on IIS or a combination.

    If there are going to be slow periods of usage on your website, and you want each page to load fast for a visitor that happens along, in the past I have setup a timed job to hit my website at specific intervals (about 5 minutes worked for me), and that made sure that it was always ready to go when a visitor came along.

    Very easy to do if you have access to a task scheduler.

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