Apache 1.3 'lag' with PHP ...

[Marc G. Fournier]

I'm trying to track down an odd problem, and getting almost no where with 
it :(

When you go to http://www.postgresql.org/index-test.php, at the bottom, 
there is 'load times' based on various settings throughout the code ... 
the file reads in one file, and has two database access sections to it ...
timings look like:

loading globals.php: -0.237975
loading loading news : 0.013936
loading loading events: 0.007907
total load time: -0.212738

The problem is when you go that page, it seems to 'hang' for a few seconds 
before loading ... even using lynx on the same machine ...

there are currently 31 IPs allocated to that machine, and the apache 
server is running within a FreeBSD jail environment ... apache is the 
latest 1.3.31 ... php is 4.3.9 ... both are from FreeBSD ports, so php is 
a module, and it loads up its extensions as seperate modules, based on 
/usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini ...

Using iostat, drives aren't busy ... swap usage is around 5M ... and top 
reports that InAct memory is hovering around 1G ...

We have MinSpareServers set to 15, Max set to 30 ...

Note that I'm doing most of my testing on the server itself, using lynx, 
so I'm not dealing with 'Net lag or anything ...

Is there something that I should be looking at to make things react 
faster?

One note ... if you go to http://www.postgresql.org, which is static HTML, 
it comes up instantly ... its only when hitting a .php page that the lag 
appears to arise ...

Is there something else that I should be looking at to optimize things? 
Or to track down the slowdown?

Thanks ...

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy at hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664