I’m still trying to nail the same problem I’ve been having with the webserver not responding fast enough. Sometimes it will really pop and sites will load in milliseconds, other times they can take 3,5, or 10 seconds to load the initial page – after the initial connection is made, the interior pages work great.

I’m moving away from the faulty DNS theory because I can’t find anything to support it. It’s happening on other computers outside my network, so I’ve eliminated my non-commercial equipment as a trouble source as well. There’s no router involved anymore, the webserver is plugged directly into the switch.

Today I’ve been investigating server loads, trying to optimize mysql, and making changes to the default Apache and PHP configurations to see if I can resolve it. I’m in the process of measuring my bandwidth usage now to see if that’s a limiting factor, but it’s looking OK.

So far, I’ve jacked the memory usage for PHP and Mysql way above their defaults. Since the server still isn’t using its swap space and you saw my top output, I don’t believe the server is overloaded.

The weird thing is, this wasn’t a problem until just the last month or so. I’m racking my brain, but I can’t think of anything that might have changed other than the load.

*sigh*

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