These began coincidently with an integral upgrade from 1.92 to 2.03 and the templates set.
I though the server powerful was not enough, and it was upgraded too to a Core2 duo with 4gb of RAM.
It works fine for a while but a few days ago it’s starts to fail again.
the symptoms are turtles times in private area, blank pages, and strange behavior of CACHE in public site (sometimes it works very quick but it collapse whith a high load at rush hours --it’s a news site–).
my boss is looking for an expert who can make some profiling better than me, detecting turtle necks and solving it if possible.
If somebody are interesting contact me by private.
you might also want to have a look at your mysql_slow logs, and use
mysqltuner.pl to check the mysql setup. sometimes one BOUCLE can ruin
everything by sending mysql into disarray