>I don't see how a client can test this - the only way to extend the duration of a hit would be in the server code.....
>But if still shouldn't cause the problem you are seeing. AIU, ASP.NET normally makes a shadow copy of the bin folder and uses that. If the content of the bin folder changes then this is detected and a new shadow copy is created to deal with new hits (when all hits using the old shadow copy are completed then that copy is destroyed). First new hits after the change may show some lag as the shadow is created but the process should still work.
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>Putting

<hostingEnvironment shadowCopyBinAssemblies="false" />

in the web.config supposedly disables this behaviour - but I assume you haven't done that. Unneccessary additional files in the bin folder can slow things down but that's all....
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>Not much help in solving the problem I'm afraid...

I have checked the Web.config and the Machine.config. Nothing in there contains that tag.

I hope this problem will go away when we will upgrade the OS On the server. But, this cannot be done now. So, for now, I need to find a way to resolve the issue. This has caused me so much problems over the last two years.