I use the late开发者_开发技巧st WAMP on Windows XP do develop websites locally.

Recently it has become slower and slower. Now web pages often take 3-4 seconds to connect before they begin to download and render.

Is there anything I can do fix the speed issue I am having?

Clear your log files

I tried deleting my Apache/MySQL/PHP log files (about 200mb when totalled) and restarting the services.

Everything seems back to normal speeds now.

is php loaded as an apache module? I vaguely remember having an issue with performance of my WAMP setup and it turned out to be somewhere along the lines of PHP not being loaded into memory only once but started up on every request. There's an option to configure how it's loaded somewhere in the httpd.conf... But it's been years since I had this issue... just wanted to add my two cents :-)