Directory listing is slow

[pacman99 0]

Hi,
Whenever I try listing a directory, it's quite slow. Takes about 5-10 seconds to load, especially if that directory contains more than 2 directories.
I AM using an htaccess file so perhaps that's slowing it down? Some of the directories on my server have their own htaccess files. The content of my htaccess files is as follows:

[code]

Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
AuthName "The Server"
AuthUserFile /var/blah/.somefile
AuthGroupFile /var/blah/.somegroupfile
AuthType Basic

require group somegroup [/code]



I only have maybe 5-6 user accounts.

Some other miscellaneous settings in my httpd.conf that might be useful

my httpd.conf and vhosts.d/00_default_vhost.conf can be found at http://www.admochempack.com/linux/  in case i missed posting something important.

Any ideas?
Thanks!