UpLoading Large Files?

Afternoon List- I have been burrowing through archives and newsgroups for awhile now and have been trying to find some info on a better way to upload files from a browser then doing HTTP based uploads? Are there any? My system: PIII 750, 128MB RAM running FreeBSD 4.2 and Apache 1.3.20, PHP 4.0.6 The normal load average is very low (usually 95%+ resources free), but when I start the HTTP load the single http process slowly makes its merry way to 98% CPU util or so. Additional PHP based requests are slow, while html requests are fine. I was also reading that large http file requests are inherrintly slow and have troubles. Details on this? I guess my question is, is uploading large file (15MB+) over the internet a viable thing to do using a HTTP upload method? and are there ways of keeping the process utilization down? That's probably BSD dependant, but thought I'd throw it in :) Thanks! Henrik Please CC me on replies, I am only reading the Digest of this list.