Issac, You are right, I should have talked about that in my original post. The server has plenty of hardware resources. He usually runs with 600MB of free memory and he's got two CPU cores. The VM server is also underutilized. Issac Goldstand wrote: > > > Clayton Dillard wrote: >> All, >> Thank you for taking the time to review my question. >> >> After a fresh boot (or a reboot) our Apache server returns pages very >> quickly to the client browser. We are running SugarCRM and the >> response time is usually around .29 seconds. This high performance >> lasts for some unpredictable period of time. Then we start seeing >> page response times of around 1.3 to 2.5 seconds. >> > > Not to overstate the obvious, but before you start exploring software > bottlenecks, are you sure there's no hardware bottleneck? Swapping, > for example, is pretty nasty to everyone running on the machine... > > Issac > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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