title: My ASP.net MVC 4 site gets slow on first request to SQL Server Express 2012
body: <p>I have an ASP.net MVC 4 site and it gets slow on the first request.
  It is not high slow but pages that use to long 1000-700 ms on load, the first time it longs 8-15seg. It occurs when i wait for 10 minutes for example and come back to make a request. The web site is not on production server yet. May it be when the app pool does not receive any request it goes to sleep?.</p>
  
  <p>I have configured the new AutoStart mode in framework 4:
  <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/09/15/auto-start-asp-net-applications-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/09/15/auto-start-asp-net-applications-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx</a></p>
  
  <p>I think it may be the first request to the SQL Server Express 2012 (in the same server).
  I have set the autoclose=off in the database.</p>
  
  <p>What more can i do?. How could i see what is going on the first request to avoid that slow response?.</p>