How to speed up the access

[Vinod Bhaskar]

Hi friends,

I have MySQL 3.23.41 in my Mandrake Linux 8.1.   I am using PHP 4.0 queries 
to access the MySQL database, in Apache 1.3.2 environment.

Now a days, some of my php modules are very slow.  eg., earlier a report 
generation program in PHP use to take less than 30 sec to genrate and disply 
the report  and noiw the same report program is  taking more than 5 min to 
disply.  Off couce the database is growing.  But  there are only 4000 
Records.   

What may be the problem and how to spead up the process? Please suggest.

Regards,

Vinod.