Apache transfer speeds

[Ben123]

hi all,

 

I'm having a weird issue.  I have a server running Windows 2003, and

Apache 2.

 

 

I serve a 30MB file on Apache, and it takes over 1 minute to download

to my desktop.

If I copy it from the same server to the same desktop using file

sharing, it copies in 3-4 seconds.

If I use Jetty to serve it from the server to the desktop, it copies

in 3-4 seconds.

I tried swapping ports; so I put Apache on 8080 (to replicate the

Jetty environment) but my file still takes over a minute to download.

 

 

I run Ethereal, and I see that there are 0.5 sec "chunks" where Apache

isn't transferring any packets.  It's like if it takes a 0.5 sec break

every once in a while.

 

 

Anyone care to comment?  We looked at Apache configuration, TCP/IP

settings (registry, default Windows stuff) but nothing seems to be

wrong.  There are obviously no anti-virus running either.

 

 

thanks for your help!

 

 

[R_P]

Do you have any network monitoring software that could be monitoring or throttling bandwidth? IE Windows Firewall settings, etc? I would suspect that there is another process chained to that port parsing activity. Thats my hunch since I have apache 2 running on Windows 2k and Windows 2k3 servers without a problem. Another place you will want to post this question if you already haven't is at apachelounge.com (exclusively for windows-apache users).

 

Good Luck