[Gllug] Apache appears to run *very* slowly

[Walid Shaari]

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 16:26, Simon Morris wrote:

> 
> I assumed reverse DNS lookups and disabled these both in Apache and PHPwiki.
> I also thought of bandwidth but I'm on 100BaseT. When I did a ethereal
> trace on the server I found the following
> 
> 0.00 secs -- start trace
> 2.215 secs -- TCP 3 way handshake
> 2.216 secs -- First HTTP packet sent to client
> 2.498 secs -- last HTTP packet sent to client
> 2.516 secs -- TCP FIN and then FIN/ACK
> 15.21 secs -- Page displayed in IE
> 
> So Apache seems to be doing its job quick enough. Why does the client have
> to wait until 15.21 secs (I stopped the trace as soon as the pages loaded
> in the client) until he can read the page?
> 
> The easy answer is IE is crap, but that won't impress many people here!!!!

Have you tried another browsers? as IE is optimised in a broken way to
work with IIS. and also how about static pages these should be served
faster. Dynamic page serving is much slower than static.

Walid.



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