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Greetings. I have a standard Apache 2 install that I compiled and installed on a new RHEL box. Things were working fine, but I noticed that the box has become very slow.

When I go to the command line from another box on the network and issue a 'wget http://192.168.1.100/index.html', it sits there for a while with a "HTTP request sent, awaiting response..." message. When I send the request to another box with the same configuration on the same network, the response is lightening fast.

Once I get the response, the file downloads in no time.

Any ideas where I can begin looking?

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