I'm a little bit late in on this one, and asking questions after the problem is solved is a bit academic, but I am curious about one thing - Does the debian package do reverse lookups to try to get a name for the visiting IP address? Every page request taking 5 seconds sounds like a name lookup failure to me. regards Markus On Tuesday 01 March 2005 13:45, Gerard wrote: > > It looks like you are using Debian and probably did an apt-get install > > php. Why don't you try compiling php by hand without all the extra > > crap that I'm sure you don't need then try it. I think you will be > > much happier. Debian is great software, but when it comes to things > > like web services and php it is much better to compile by hand to get > > the best performance. > > Thanks for that one! After a manual compile it all works fine :D > > - Gerard -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php