I was wondering if someone could help me out. We're currently running a web site on CentOS 5.5 running Apache - Tomcat - Mysql. A part of the web site runs slowly or it would appear to be.

The part in question returns records from mysql about approx 200 - 400 rows of data.

The first point of call was the SQL database we've managed to fine tune this. The problem I have is with IE7 and IE8 when I run Firefox or IE6 SP2 the rows return in about 9 seconds. I use IE7 or IE8 and it takes about 20 - 25 seconds.

Could this be an APACHE problem?

I would run the query from the mysql prompt for each browser type and check the time.
If that runs exactly the same then you only have your Java application and your browsers
to narrow this down.

If the rendering of the SQL is in some format that takes time to process then that could
be where you have your issue.

It's not very likely this is an apache problem unless you are using server side code to do
something with the browser type.