apache is crawling of a sudden...

[toastermonkey]

Ok, gentoo running...hm, not actually sure what kernel. 2.4.18, apache 1.3.26 and the most recent mod_php. Right, it's been running decently well, serving 1 website that requires nearly no bandwidth. I don't have it workign with reverse DNS but this hasn't provided me with any problems. However, recently, I've been experiencing very, very slow load times on my site, the banner takes its sweet time to come up, other images take a while. I'm talking a difference of what used to be 2s and is now somewhere around 40 - 60 seconds. The server itself isn't really handling any more load than it was before the slowdown, and being SSHed, I don't experience any latency. I can use BitchX and get good pings, I can ping the server from anywhere and I get prompt replies, but apache is just chunkin' on the images. I'm really not sure why. I've restarted the service, it's just not DOING more than it was, there's no reason for it to change. by the way, the image is 13k, takes anywhere from 30 - 60 seconds to load. Any suggestions would be great

[rac]

[mglauche]

hmm, websites without reverse dns are fairly common, i.e. named based virtual hosts (many virtual servers on one IP)

first you should try to find out if its a server problem (apache/php/perhaps mysql) or network. look at the load and the logs of the server, and do a tcpdump on the outgoing network device to see what exactly is happening, try if you can see some abnormal traffic on that device..

[rac]