Startup time of PHP with FastCGI

Hello everybody,

I use mod_fastcgi on Apache 2.0.53 with suexec wrapper to run PHP with user
credentials, I experience, however, a slow startup of the php processes.
It takes up to 4 seconds for the processes to be spawned (regardless of the
amount of children...)
In the docs of mod_fastcgi, I've found some directives that gave me some
hope of tuning this behaviour, but It seems they are being ignored. It makes
no difference at all.
>From command line PHP does start immediatly.
 
I'd like to keep using FastCGI since it's working very well, except for the
startup times, which is a big issue when you're working with multiple
clustered webservers....
 
The php.sh looks like this:
 
#!/bin/sh
PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=3
export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN
exec /usr/local/bin/php

The FastCgiConfig in httpd.conf of apache is as follows:
 
FastCgiWrapper /usr/local/sbin/suexec
FastCgiConfig -init-start-delay 1 -restart -restart-delay 1
FastCgiConfig -maxClassProcesses 5 -maxProcesses 50
FastCgiConfig -singleThreshold 100

And a default virtualhost looks like:
 
<VirtualHost *:80>
        DocumentRoot /www/vhost/public_html/
        ServerName www.vhost.com
        ScriptAlias /fcgi-bin/ /www/vhost/etc/
        SuexecUserGroup username username
        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /www/vhost/cgi-bin/
        Action application/x-httpd-php /fcgi-bin/php.sh
        FrontPage On
        FrontPageAdmin Off
        #extra
</VirtualHost>

Some specs:
FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p10
Apache 2.0.53
PHP 4.3.11

Thanx for your time,
RupS

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