Mongrel users - May 2006 - slow first connect

I was hoping to remove this issue that I had with FCGI, but it seems to
happen with mongrel as well.  the first connection appears to be really
really slow.  is this normal behavior, and is there a way to avoid it?

thanks
adam
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