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Diagnosing slow http connections

By Sunny Gabriel - Mar. 11, 2008

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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  1. By Sunny Gabriel on Mar. 11, 2008

    Please note - the same thing happens (the delay) when I hit http://127.0.0.1/index.html.


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  2. By an anonymous user on Mar. 13, 2008

    Hmm.


    Is this slow for all types of files?


    What about plain html files vs files like jsp or php files? Is it all files?


    Are you gzipping the content?


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  3. By leehj hj on Sep. 01, 2008

    i don't know.


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  4. By Mike Farley on Sep. 04, 2008

    the web server processes may be getting swapped out, especially if the web server is only used on occasion.


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