Viv,

I see the log, and see the time changes. But what do you do to create the slow response? There has to be some rhythm or reason to it. I would think, that somewhere in the WebService and exception is being thrown and causing that lag. It must not be being thrown everytime, but it probably is being thrown once in a while.

Have you tried catching call exceptions in that webservice or tracing the SQL traffic ? I don't think sniffing the TCP/IP traffic, will be very helpful.

Have you been able to narrow it down at all? I think if you could figure how a set of steps to ALWAYS make it have the slow response, that could be the 1st clue to narrowing it down as to WHY it having the slow response.

Morgan