IIS6 and mass creation of virtual directories

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:14:31 +0200, "Massimo" <barone.TakeThisOut@mclink.it>
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  >> I am doing some testing with II6 and Windows 2003 Server. The
  >> webserver will host over 7,000 virtual directories (Student Web
  >> Server). When creating the directories with the iisvdir.vbs and
  >> iisftpdr.vbs, everything works great at the begininng. But after 1,000
  >> directories it takes the scripts longer and longer to complete. My
  >> guess is that the vbs scripts are doing some error checking but this
  >> is ridiculous. At 5,000 virtual directories it will take the vbs
  >> scripts 3 minutes each to create a directory.
  >> We are currently using IIS5 and we were hoping that IIS6 was going to
  >> fix this problem, before we say the hell with it and go back to
  >> Apache. If anybody knows of a more efficient way of creating the
  >> virtual directories or any advice that would be useful it would be
  >> much appreciated.
 >
 >Just a guess, but... have you tried creating the vdirs in smaller batches
 >(i.e. ~1000 at a time) ?
 >This way, you could do some check between them (memory usage ?), and maybe
 >take some cleaning measures (restarting IIS ?).
 >
 >Massimo


I tried that also but have the same problem. It is like to scripts are
looking through the metabase for a duplicate name or something. But
the bigger the metabase gets the longer it takes them.
Thanks,
David<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: IIS6 and mass creation of virtual directories 

Hmm... weird. I created a FOR loop that called iisvdir.vbs to create 10,000
virtual directories pointing to different directories, and it's munching
through all 10,000 without a stall. The only problem I've been observing is
that WMI will have problems every 1500 vdirs or so (that's a separate bug),
but otherwise, the 10,000th vdir created as fast as the first vdir.

As it's a script, you can easily attach a script debugger like VS to the
script, step through it, and see the exact line of code that's taking a long
time for you. I would be interested to know what line it is.

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On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:14:31 +0200, "Massimo" <barone.RemoveThis@mclink.it>
wrote:

 >"www.ttdown.com" <dnickel.RemoveThis@aug.edu> ha scritto nel messaggio
 >news:hslemvc6tjufkl31cekr5tmlk3popvtvlv@4ax.com...
 >
  >> I am doing some testing with II6 and Windows 2003 Server. The
  >> webserver will host over 7,000 virtual directories (Student Web
  >> Server). When creating the directories with the iisvdir.vbs and
  >> iisftpdr.vbs, everything works great at the begininng. But after 1,000
  >> directories it takes the scripts longer and longer to complete. My
  >> guess is that the vbs scripts are doing some error checking but this
  >> is ridiculous. At 5,000 virtual directories it will take the vbs
  >> scripts 3 minutes each to create a directory.
  >> We are currently using IIS5 and we were hoping that IIS6 was going to
  >> fix this problem, before we say the hell with it and go back to
  >> Apache. If anybody knows of a more efficient way of creating the
  >> virtual directories or any advice that would be useful it would be
  >> much appreciated.
 >
 >Just a guess, but... have you tried creating the vdirs in smaller batches
 >(i.e. ~1000 at a time) ?
 >This way, you could do some check between them (memory usage ?), and maybe
 >take some cleaning measures (restarting IIS ?).
 >
 >Massimo


I tried that also but have the same problem. It is like to scripts are
looking through the metabase for a duplicate name or something. But
the bigger the metabase gets the longer it takes them.
Thanks,
David<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: IIS6 and mass creation of virtual directories 

I am calling the iisvdir.vbs and iisftpdir.vbs scripts from a perl
script. I commented out the iisftpdir.vbs script and just created the
web virtual directories and it worked beautifully. I created 6,200
virtual directories in 1 hour and 20 minutes. It looks like the
problem is with the iisftpdir.vbs scripts. If I am not mistaken if you
setup the root of your ftp site to the the root of my userdir
directories it will automatically map to the correct directory based
on the user's login name.

Does anybody know if in IIS6 you still have to use adsutil to set the
Default Logon Domain for Ftp users? Also is there anything special you
have to do to get ftp to map usernames to user directories with the
same name, so I do not have to create 6,0000 plus ftp directories?

Thanks,
David

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 00:38:51 -0700, "David Wang [Msft]"
<someone.DeleteThis@online.microsoft.com> wrote:

 >Hmm... weird. I created a FOR loop that called iisvdir.vbs to create 10,000
 >virtual directories pointing to different directories, and it's munching
 >through all 10,000 without a stall. The only problem I've been observing is
 >that WMI will have problems every 1500 vdirs or so (that's a separate bug),
 >but otherwise, the 10,000th vdir created as fast as the first vdir.
 >
 >As it's a script, you can easily attach a script debugger like VS to the
 >script, step through it, and see the exact line of code that's taking a long
 >time for you. I would be interested to know what line it is.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: IIS6 and mass creation of virtual directories