images are not being displayed

[sebbothebutcher]

hi!
i recently noticed, that my apache server does not load most of the images out of some reason... when i call the page through my browser the image is loading partially and then the loading process stops... when i try to view an image alone, it is very likely that a message saying: "image.xyz can't be displayed because it contains errors!"
anybody knows why?

[lemat]

broken Network Interface Card,
heavy load
...

try to bypass NIC running wget from the shell at your server.

[sebbothebutcher]

okay... can you tell me how to do this? and it doesn't always happen... only with bigger image files!

[lemat]

login using your favourite putty/ssh/telnet client
and then:
wget "http://www.egzample.tld/any_big_picture.jpg"
then compare the pictures by viewing them.

[sebbothebutcher]

sorry, but could you into detail a little bit more? i don't quite understand what you're trying to tell me... thanks!

[sebbothebutcher]

hi tried it with putty telnet client! the log file output looks like this:

wget "http://www.douglas.eckhart.btinternet.co.uk/maps-middle-earth-01.jpg"
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:28:12 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.39 (Win32) PHP/4.2.2
Content-Length: 366
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

[lemat]

good. I have tried 4 times to download this image - all successfull.

therefore you should check some more:

error_log - for unusual entries

check free resources with:
top
free

check your apache status with:
apachectl status