francis picabia <fpicabia@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The server was running Moodle. The slow load time was noticed when loading > a quiz containing > multiple images. All Apache log results showed a 6 seconds or a multiple > of 6 for how long > it took to retrieve each image. > Interestingly, if I did a wget, on the server, to the image link (which was > processed through a pluginfile.php URL) > even the HTML page returned of "please login first" took consistently 6 > seconds. Never 2, 3, 4, 5 or 7, 8, 9... > So whatever was wrong, there was a 6 second penalty for this. Hmm ... some weird DNS behavior, perhaps? That is one way to explain a pattern like this. How long does it take to "dig" or "nslookup" your server name? regards, tom lane
