Quote Originally Posted by bartmoss View Post
PS: if it's mysql, what table types are you using? This may be too obvious, so my apologies in advance, but if you have MyISAM check carefully what they are used for, because MyISAM only does table locking. I have seen this myself in one situation, if you have say a session table that constantly gets updated, and it's myisam, you'll kill your site with that.
We are using InnoDB tables where possible to deal with this, though it is an overhead trade-off.

-Rob A>