MySQL problems

[Curry]

With the massive linking currently to the Nipplegate article our MySQL was showing a nasty tendency to lock up even though the server load was well below traffic we've experienced before. Apparently even a P4-3Ghz almost solely dedicated to our site isn't always enough

Frontpage is static for that single article until incoming traffic drops a bit, our apologies for the inconvenience.

[Curry]

For what it's worth server is completely stable and running effortless with the static news item. New template has been excluded as source of problems since I switched back to the old template rather quickly and that didn't solve it. Load is acceptable now so I'm probably switching back to dynamic again soon.

[Curry]

Scrap that, was just running dynamic and load went skyhigh again... something in MySQL goes wrong rather badly it appears and I cannot solve it right away. Perhaps I'll try again later....

[Curry]

Blindingly simple and now feasible now the worst is over: only the Tomb Raider article is running static now, rest of the site is dynamic again at very acceptable loads.

[Curry]

Added hefty caching to the frontpage in some spaces and whole site is running dynamic again without a hitch in serverload.

[Curry]

Apart from the caching we've now also probably found the configuration problem that was causing MySQL to lock up. Rock on