[users@httpd] need help on improving apache server performance

[Senthil Nathan <rsennat@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi all,

i would like to improve the apache server performance.
its dead slow. its downloading the images again and again from the server and makes it very slow.

then i googled and found some interesting stuff like this,
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ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 300 seconds"

<Directory "/cgi-bin/higui>
    Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 1 day"
    ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 day"
    ExpiresByType text/_javascript_ "access plus 1 day"
    ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"
    ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 month"
    ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"
</Directory>
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after using this stuff in the httpd.conf file, i see that its faster,
but still the requests to the server are not made to run some of the cgi scripts.
its fetching the data from the cache instead of the server.

so, in general i need to cache the images and also the cgi scripts run on the client has to be faster.

how should i do this???

thanks
senthil