Problem resolved. Turns out that my internal DNS server's configuration and a misinstalled/configured web-statistics counter were to blame. PHP runs great and a recent upgrade to mySQL added significant performance gains via query caching... "Edward Tilley" <etilley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:20041228092557.28002.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > environment - PII 450, 1 Gb RAM, Windows 2000 Server, IIS 5, PHP 4.3.1, > MySQL 4.0.23 > > My php website screams on my local network segment but slows to a crawl > everytime a remote user (someone outside my firewall) calls a php page. My > processor goes to 100% for 2 to 5 seconds and php.exe becomes the top CPU > consumer. > > Has anyone else seen this behaviour? I forward port 80 requests through > the firewall presently and I think I have covered all of my DNS bases. > > Thanks for any help ! > > Ed -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php