title: ttfb is very high for symfony2 php project
body: <p>I have xampp apache runnnig on my windows 8, 64 bit laptop. With symfony 2, the TTFB is about 4 sec, on prod, for every server response and about 8-10 secs on dev. I have no idea how to reduce this to under 1 sec. It is not possible to work with such latency.</p>
  
  <p>To isolate the issue I did the following
  1. localhost/xampp/ loads very fast (within 1 sec)
  2. localhost/ims/web/test.php loads immediately. ims is the symfony2 project. The test.php has  </p>
  
  <p>Please tell me how to reduce the TTFB. It does seem to be an apache issue.</p>