Dac Chartrand wrote on Sun, 5 Oct 2008 21:44:10 -0400:
Well, here's where I disagree
You already admitted that you have a non-standard setup. Besides of that it's a "VPS" of unknown origin and type. Do you consider this standard? Nobody here can know which parts are non-standard. But it's obvious that there is more non-standard than you think. Remember, others do not have this problem.
What's non standard in my install other
than PHP? Furthermore, uninstalling PHP does nothing?
I already told you what *I* would check *first*. This may not be the right track, but nevertheless: Did you?
Apart from that, as you have "inherited" a VPS. What is that? Do you rent it from a hosting provider? If so, and keeping in mind that there's obviously a problem with opening more threads (fastestmirror will open simultaneous download threads to several repo's to find out the fastest): Have you considered asking your provider the obvious?
Kai