> > How exactly are you measuring this? Presumably, your > > production boxes are serving other requests at the same > > time, right? > > Initially, I was using SeeFusion traces on production and > gettickcount() on my box. But, thinking that might add > overhead differences, I went with gettickcount() on both > (using conditionals based on my IP address to make sure real > users don't see it). As far as other requests -- not really. > Like I said, it's very low traffic, and if there's more than > one request within a single minute, it's a busy day (that > gets into questions about the business spending my time > working on this low-traffic site, but that's a whole other > issue -- the funny thing is this is a load balanced > application [and, yes, both boxes show the same time > differentials]). So, the odds of requests hitting the box at > the same time and affecting performance seem pretty remote.
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