Please keep it to the subject.
I have been doing both ASP.NET profiling and SQL profiling this night.
The first thing I noticed is that nopCommerce is generating a huge amount of SQL.
For instance to load the front page it requires nearly 60kb with SQL!
Raw data from SQL profiler: http://smartad.no/geir/NopCommerce_Frontpage_SQL_load.txt
But the strange thing is that even on request number 2 - it still generates the same amount of SQL queries.
My guess is that caching is broken with 2.1 (or with my configuration ..?)
Any devs following this and maybe could confirm this?