we have an ASP.NET 1.1 Application in this evironment:
- OS Windows Server 2003 SP1 (IIS 6.0)
- Application Center 2000 cluster (3 nodes)
- ASP.NET Session managed in a SQL Server 2000 cluster

I recently had .net version 2 installed to support a product that requires
.net 2. When the application is run, I get the message "Microsoft IE Execute
shell has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We are sorry for the
inconvenience".

I have a windows service thats sole purpose is to cache a large set of
data from a web service.  The service writes the data to cache and
makes it available to all clients.  I have seen a drop in load time of
the data from 8s to 2s.

.Net v1.1
I noticed when I minimize my winforms application, memory usage goes down to about 1.2megs (as reported by taskmgr). When the app is in use memory usage quickly creeps up to around 100megs. Does minimizing trigger garbage collection?
Im using alot of double buffered forms ...

We have a considerable large .NET application running in Terminal
Services, where other applications are also used (Office, Reflection,
Web applications).
We are getting major slowdowns at times, where all terminal clients lock

As someone fairly new to high performance applications can  someone recomend
load testing software. Preferably something not too expensive that someone
new will find easy to understand. Regards, Chris.

    My client is reporting that my .net application is creating 60% burden
on database,how can i reduce this burden please help me out.