4s under modperl?! Your server must be heavily overloaded by other things, there is no way it should take that long. On a forum this size on a win2k, amd700, 512 megs of ram, and using MSSQL 2000, it averages 0.25s per page.
Cheers,
Alex
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Cheers,
Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.