For those of you running a 2.4.x kernel, if you also run Apache, try this:

1. Access some local pages via Apache:
• http://localhost/openlinux_help/lui/Lizard-HOWTO.html
2. Then, make the following changes to your httpd.conf file
• BindAddress 127.0.0.1
• Port 8080
• Listen 8080
• (also change any virtual host references to 127.0.0.1:8080)
3. restart Apache
4. Create rc.khttpd as such:
• #!/bin/sh
• modprobe khttpd
• (if you compiled khttpd as a module)
• echo 8080 > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/clientport
• echo /home/httpd/html > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/documentroot
• echo phtml > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/dynamic
• echo inc > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/dynamic
• echo shtml > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/dynamic
• echo php3 > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/dynamic
• echo phps > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/dynamic
• echo php > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/dynamic
• echo inc > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/dynamic
• echo cfm > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/dynamic
• echo asp > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/dynamic
• echo pl > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/dynamic
• echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/logging
• echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/threads
• echo 80 > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/serverport
• echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/start
5. The above script I call rc.khttpd and I call it from rc.local. You may or may not need/want to add to the list of dynamic pages that should be passed to Apache. Just follow the example above.
6. Then access the same web pages you did earlier. You should see a fairly dramatic increase in speed. At least, on my Inspiron 7K w/ 128Mb RAM I did.
7. If you need more information, you can start with the document:
• /usr/src/linux/net/khttpd/README
• (don't ask me why they didn't put this in the Documentation directory, I don't know)