<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Michael at WebFlyer:
3. Files become corrupt. When this occurs the scripting is at a loss as to how to parse the the corrupted data and then the problems really start. Forums slow down and either stop completely or postings show up missing, etc, etc, etc.
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Thanks for the comments. While it doesn't make things work any faster, I'm sure many of us on this board who have some technical knowledge prefer to have some explanation like that.
Have you ever managed to isolate the point at which things start going wrong? I wonder whether it's directly load related, or some kind of locking failure which is made much more likely by high load on the server?