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I have nothing to do with these servers. I tend to be whored out to others when there's a problem to solve, like the A-Team but less cool (I still eat as much as the A-Team).
What I do know is that it used to run on physical servers and was moved to virtual. The problem didn't appear then. The other guys seem to think previous load problem started when they moved some more sites over from physical to the virtual servers. Basically it reach a noticeable amount of redirect looping and they threw more power at it until I got involved and found the cause. It was then running basically happily for a bit on far reduce virtual hardware. Then it started falling over. The load would suddenly (in the space of 10min) ramp up and the CF process/app/whatever would need to be killed. I know the virtual servers have both been patch and running latest Ubuntu or whatever the OS is. If it was server related it would happen all the time. As it is it will run fine until some random time when it will ramp up and fall over. So it's possibly a page that's not hit very often but when it is it does something to cane the server.
Thanks I'll have a look at Coldfire.