Hour glass

[hugh]

I'm trying to understand why I get an hour glass from my web browser (firefox) when I have two simultaneous downloads running from my web server (apache 1.3.x) and try to access other web contents on it (for instance another web page) until the transfer are over.

Anyway I'm at a loss to explain this behaviour so any suggestions would be welcome!

Thanks...

Hugh

[jdMorgan]

Where is the server -- On your machine? Remote?
Who's doing the downloading? -- You? Someone else?

Could be anything really, but my main suspect would be that your machine is bordering on being out of physical memory, and is therefore swapping memory pages to and from virtual memory (on your hard drive)... Just a guess, though; Look at Task Manager and see how much physical memory you have left. Less than about 25% is a problem.

Jim

[hugh]

It's a remote server with a quad core 1.86mhz CPU, 2*250 GB HDD in software RAID and 4 Gig of RAM running Debian Etch so I don't think it's a resource issue. Also I had pretty much the same configuration running on another box with a different ISP and never had the problem...