Hello, Thanks for your responses. (I'm afraid there's a lot I don't know. That's why I'm asking questions ;) answers inserted inline below) -----Original Message----- From: "Shawn Beard" <SBeard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:04:58 -0400 Subject: Re: [users@httpd] troubleshooting apache performance > It might be worth doing a traceroute also. See how may hops it takes > to > get there and how long those hops take. Could also be a routing issue. > I'm not familiar with traceroute, so I googled it. I came up with a tool at network-tools.com called traceroute. I tried it about 10 times with 3 different domains hosted on the same machine I was getting the same 10 hops taking 73 or 74 miliseconds every time. (one time took 81) if this gives any information or if I misunderstood, please let me know. > Shawn Beard > Web Administrator, MCSE, MCSA, MCP > Iowa Foundation for Medical Care > Information Systems > sbeard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Office: 515-440-8581 > > > >>> moseley@xxxxxxxx 8/17/2006 9:41:25 AM >>> > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 07:48:45AM -0600, Ray wrote: > > The behaviour I am seeing is that sometimes page requests are > normal, > > sometimes pages load slow, and sometimes they don't load at all and > the > > user gets a 'cannot find server' error message, and all occur in no > > particular order within a short period of time on the same user > machine. > > Same machine? I was going to suggest looking at DNS issues. yes, the same server and the same (seperate) client machine. server is attached to the local telco's network, and in the case of my machine, client is attached to local cable company. > > -- > Bill Moseley > moseley@xxxxxxxx > > I don't know if it proves anything but here's the machine specs: Pentium 4 2.4 GHz 1 GB Ram (Dual Channel, I believe) 2 * 120 GB harddrive (I believe SATA, Raid 1) MS Win 2003 Apache 2.0.55 modssl 2.0.55 openssl 0.9.8a PHP 5.1.2 mySQL 4.1.18 Thanks again, Ray --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx