Any chance of some input here. We've got cache enabled sites on machines that have plenty of muscle performing terribly.
It looks like the machine always has to chug away when prcessing templates which suggests its not compiling/caching etc, but we dont see how to debug at this point? Its only a problem we seem to have on 3.6.x builds.
Steve- I would also implicate a missing PHP accelerator. I regularly see a 5-10 fold improvement in page load times when using an accelerator. We are using eaccelerator on windows as well, and are getting page loads on pages with complex templates as quick as .25 seconds on a 1.8ghz dual proc. With the accelerator, it was 2.5-3 seconds.