Entity framework very slow to load for first time

Question

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 re

Answer 1

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.