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Reply to topic   Topic: Directory listing is slow
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pacman99



Joined: 17 Jul 2006
Posts: 3

PostPosted: Thu 28 Sep '06 23:37    Post subject: Directory listing is slow Reply with quote

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




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!
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James Blond
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Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Posts: 7373
Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg

PostPosted: Thu 19 Oct '06 9:53    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can think of two cases.
a) your internetconnection / upload (users download) is slow.

b) +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

Apache will have to issue extra system calls to check up on symlinks. One extra call per filename component

you should change it to Indexes MultiViews
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pacman99



Joined: 17 Jul 2006
Posts: 3

PostPosted: Tue 24 Oct '06 18:41    Post subject: Reply with quote

^turning off Symlinks did result in a speed increase but it's still slower than normal.
What stumps me is that using a php script I have, I can get the directory listing pretty fast. Also, I'm using this over my LAN (100mbit) so speed shouldn't be an issue Crying or Very sad
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James Blond
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Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Posts: 7373
Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg

PostPosted: Tue 24 Oct '06 19:14    Post subject: Reply with quote

other issue can be a lame hdd, but you told php is reading it fast.
Maybe you loaded a module that slows down.

You can send me your httpd.conf so that I can take a look, if you want

JBlond[nospam][gmail][spam]com

Did you try the listening without the auth basic? Is it faster?
Do the files for auth exist?

Are you running on Linux? Because of the /var/
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