performance question

On Windows 2000 Server, we're running IIS, and have both ASP.OLD and ASP.NET (1.1) installed.

On one particular ASP.NET page, it calls out to a WebService on another machine, and it's a very long running request.

What I think we're noticing is that when this page is called, other people who are accessing pages on the same IIS box (not the WebService box) experience heavy slowdows. This is on ASP.OLD pages even.

I'm not sure if one is the cause of the other. Is this possible? I mean, I understand that if one of the ASP pages is doing lots of work, that it would hamper performance of the other pages, because they are all running on the same IIS server, but in this case the slow running process is on another machine entirely.

While ServerA is waiting for a response from ServerB, would that cause other requests to ServerA to be slowed?

Thanks!

You might be able to use the Performance Monitor to isolate the problem. I don't know what passes back & forth between the servers with a web service.