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The way you refer to objects in PHP also greatly affects the speed of apache. If you access graphics, php Ads, or others via an HTTP style reference rather than as a relative directory reference, you will be adding another process. Apache as normally configured has a limited number of processes, and as a result, this can bog the server while trying to get ads and such.
The sheer number of little graphical items on the pages makes me think that there is either not enough processes available, or the child processes for each user is too low, and is causing the machine to process them sequentially rather than in one big block. Not sure how to avoid this, except maybe to cache the graphics earlier in the page...
Alex
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