Configuring apache

I have 2 servers that are both running very slow. That is, the server load is light (around 0.01-0.3), but files load very sloowwww. It takes about a minute to start a file download. The server I have is 2.4Ghz w/ 1GB ECC SDRAM (http://www.unitedcolo.com/servers/extreme.htm). When I first got them and nobody was downloading, speeds were lightning fast.

The servers' jobs are very simple. Users are sent to php page that forwards them automatically (without displaying any HTML) to the URL of the file to start downloading by getting the location from MySQL. Files are mostly about ~1MB large, but some can be as big as ~100MB. The bandwidth monitor says I am using an average 9.40Mb/s of bandwidth, but I am not positive this is correct.

Does anyone have any suggestions for the optimized settings I should configure Apache with or any other ideas how to speed things up?

Thanks,
Matt

 

 

 

 

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