Install problem very slow connecting loading and serving

We have installed Flash Media Server on a Linux machine. It has 2GB of RAM, Fedora 9 with kernel 2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686, the install required a few packages (compat-expat1 was one) to be installed before we saw the sample page. The sample page takes a few minutes to load and opening the page to connect to the admin console is about the same.

This is currently on our internal network while we try and see how it works. Are there any specifc TCP related kernel tuning parameters (eg in sysctl.conf) which need to be put in place over and above the out-of-box configuration. Any troubleshooting hints which might identify the problem.

The install seemed ok nothing in /var/log/messages and checking to see what is running (ps aux | grep fms) I see

./fmsmaster -silent
/opt/adobe/fms/Apache2.2/bin/httpd -f ./conf/httpd.conf -d /opt/adobe/fms/Apache2.2 -k start
/opt/adobe/fms/fmsedge -edgeports :80,1935 -coreports localhost:19350 -conf /opt/adobe/fms/conf/Server.xml -adaptor _defaultRoot_ -name _defaultRoot__edge1
/opt/adobe/fms/fmscore -adaptor _defaultRoot_ -vhost _defaultVHost_ -app registry -inst registry -tag -conf /opt/adobe/fms/conf/Server.xml -name _defaultRoot_:_defaultVHost_:registry:registry:
/opt/adobe/fms/Apache2.2/bin/httpd -f ./conf/httpd.conf -d /opt/adobe/fms/Apache2.2 -k start
/opt/adobe/fms/fmscore -adaptor _defaultRoot_ -vhost _defaultVHost_ -app -inst -tag _1 -conf /opt/adobe/fms/conf/Server.xml -name _defaultRoot_:_defaultVHost_:::_1
./fmsadmin -console -conf ./conf/Server.xml

but when we clear our browser cache and go to a page it is taking forever. It is taking about 5 minutes to open up the initial page, but when it is open the videos all seem to come through fine.The server previously had apache on it but I removed that copy and went with the version included with FMS.

Mitch