IDG Contributor Network: How to tune machine.config settings for improved performance

Tweaking the settings in your configuration files in ASP.Net can provide a nice performance boost. These files include machine.config and web.config.

The web.config file is application-specific and is created by default when you create a web application or a web site in Visual Studio. Note that there is another config file named aspnet.config -- it is available from ASP.Net 2.0 onwards. This file is available in the root of the .Net Framework folder in your system. The machine configuration file, meanwhile,  is named machine.config and resides in the %runtime install path%\Config directory.

While the settings in the web.config file apply only to the application, the settings present in the machine.config file are applicable machine-wide. Note that the machine.config file is installed when you install .Net Framework in your system. You can have only one machine.config file in your system (one per system only) and it resides in the \WINDOWS\Microsoft.Net\Framework\vXXXX\CONFIG directory.

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