Ok, now I am using Debian Lenny in a production environment. (No lectures about this please). But I installed the mod_defensible using apt-get. The followed this how for the configuration stuff. But it slowed do wed access to a crawl, so slow it was totally unusable. I saw the references on this howto and tried http://julien.danjou.info/mod_defensible.html and used his config, same story; too slow. Then I tried the sid mod_defensible package with both configs. Twice I get the same results. No responce from the server. I tried again with wireshark. the server recieves the HTTP requests but never responds. The machine the web server is on is a 1.8Ghz P4 HT w/ 1.5GB ram and a raptor SATA drive with 16MB cache. Running Debian Lenny with a custom 2.6.26-1 kernel. Any ideas on fixing the slow down? Are the lenny/sid packages broken?