apache hangs when making initial connection

Hi

I made a thread yesterday about my apache woes, but I think it went a little off course, and I now have a more understandable explanation of the problem.

It seems that Apache is lagging when trying to make the initial connection. Then once it connects, it loads quickly, and the subsequent keep-alive requests are as fast as ever, but once the Keep-Alive timeout has been reached and the connection killed, there is another lag to make a new connection.

Does anyone know what could be causing this problem? There are no performance issues when this is happening; server loads are low, memory usage is normal, traffic is light.

I am on a CentOS 3.5/CPanel server with 1gb of ram and dual 3ghz proc's, with APF and apache w/mod_sec/mod_dosevasive.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

 

 

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