Hello _Rej_,
Thanks for the testing and for the logs. Unfortunately I am still trying to dig some gold out of them, without much luck though.
As you can see yourself, the timeline in the log goes pretty smoothly - no 3 seconds delays anywhere. We have only the per-second precision, this can be increased if needed, but currently I can say it seems to me there is no problem captured in the log.
The only gap I've found is between the connections. You can look it up by yourself. Search for the first occurrence of: 2007-7-31 16:29:48
You can see:
2007-7-31 16:29:48,Created
2007-7-31 16:29:48,connection 015D9368 of 5 (to clnt: 5) from 127.0.0.1:12080 to 127.0.0.1:49172
2007-7-31 16:29:48,Server: connection accepted.
This is the point where new connection is accepted by WebShield -that means WebShield was idle and waited in the accept( ) winsock call.
As you can see, the last line before this one is:
2007-7-31 16:29:45,Thread Main 11 is waiting, total 11, 10 threads waiting.
This means, all 10 threads are idle and have nothing to do (the 11th thread is reserved for other tasks, such as VPS updates etc.).
Even one line before, you can see that the same second the last non-idle thread finished it's duties and became idle as well:
2007-7-31 16:29:45,Thread Main 4 is waiting, total 11, 9 threads waiting.
The 3 seconds gap is here, between the lines:
2007-7-31 16:29:45,Thread Main 11 is waiting, total 11, 10 threads waiting.
and
2007-7-31 16:29:48,Created
During the time WebShield is completely idle, doing nothing, just waiting for some connection to arrive.
Strange indeed.
1) Do you use any 3rd party firewall on Vista?
2) Have you tried to disable port redirection in WebShield - e.g. deleting the number "80" the the "Http redirected ports" line in WebShield config? Does this helps (yes I now, no your browser does not goes through WebShield, even though it is still running).
3) What happens when you enable HTTP proxy in the browser (still with Redirect disabled in WebShield) and configure it to be localhost, port 12080. Is the 3 seconds lag still there?
Thanks for now, hopefully we will find something.
Cheers,
Lukas.