I tried a few things to speed up the processing time of the pages on this site…

But nothing seemed to work! I installed a PHP caching engine, as well as double checked that all of the tables were indexed, restarted MySQL and played with my.cnf, optimized and flushed all of the tables, etc, and pages are still taking forever to process.

This isn’t the fastest server in the world, but its strange that it takes so long to process each page since the server is barely using any CPU or RAM.
I’m sure its going to be something simple… I need to break it down and see how long the queries are taking, for instance.

I’m slated to upgrade to FreeBSD 5.0 soon, so I’d imagine it will help to do a clean wipe on this meager box and reinstall. I’m also excited about starting from scratch again so I can get a JSP and Servlet server up here (perhaps Tomcat 4 or JBoss + Tomcat) to further my current Java self-study education.

Anyhow, I’m going to do some testing/tweaking over the weekend to see if I can’t get that processing time down if I have the time. It shouldn’t be this slow. On the flip side, I enjoy challenges like this.