I have noticed recently that my admin->site settings takes a long time to load. I realized it is the same problem as I documented on Scott's forum:
http://www.smcculloch.net/Forums/tabid/118/forumid/4/postid/4942/view/topic/Default.aspx

Basically, this url control does some file access stuff on my portal. And my portal has tons of directories and files (photos) in it. I removed all controls and references in the codebehind in sitesettings.ascx and sitesettings.ascx.vb and it loads instantly. For some portals, this NEVER loads. Sometimes a couple mins or more.

See my post above for details on my system setup.

<%@ Register TagPrefix="Portal" TagName="URL" Src="~/controls/URLControl.ascx" %>

Jason

Anyone else experiencing this problem? I seem to have this problem for every module that uses URLControl.ascx. I disabled my file synchonization in the Scheduler but I did a manual synchronize and the BulkEmail (also uses URLControl.ascx) does not load either.

I do have a LOT of files (image files) and a LOT of directories in my portal subdirectories.For more details on my setup, you can see my link above.

Just wanted to bring this up again in case my scenario here is not unique and others are having problems too.

Jason