Re: production web servers on hpux

[Jonathan Crompton <J.Crompton@pyrite.demon.co.uk>]

Hi,

> My company is in the process of moving our site from Solaris to HPUX. 
> We're running into some strange errors when doing this.  Apache stays up
> and running, however it _delays_ connections - doesn't drop them or stop
> accepting, just delays them (for up to 10+ seconds).  

My first guess would be that you are doing reverse DNS lookups for
each incoming connection e.g. you have 'HostnameLookups On' and that
the reverse lookups are causing the delay.  Try some reverse lookups
from the command line.

HTH,
Jonathan.