GD Library loading windows server

bsgrules

ok, so i just put together a crappy WAMP box to expirement with and I noticed that when I run a few instances of a php script that shrinks/compresses a large number of images using the GD Library, the server stops serving any files whatsoever until the script finishes. The system resources look fine, i mean the cpu its at a 100% but memory usage is low...and I still have over 150megs of memory left.

I made large loops with complex instructions and ran several instances of that just to see if this would also cause the same problem and it didn't. The problem seems to be coupled with php using GD only.

Oh, by the way I tried this on a LAMP server and it didn't have any problems so its not my script.

I hope there isn't a problem with me posting this question on this forum. I figure there might be a few here that use gd with php on a windows environment and might know what my problem is.

thorpe

i dont run windows so cant be of much more help, but its probably a permisions issue, either that or maybe there is some sort of anti virus software running, ive heard of that causing issues before.

bsgrules

ooops, i forgot to mention the script runs fine. It runs at the normal speed and once it finishes, apache starts serving files again. Basically, its something to do with GD bogging down my server. I don't know how since like i said the memory usage is low and the script runs flawlessly on my shared linux server.