Recently my server has been under some far bigger load than normally – peaking at some 100K visitors a day. WP2.5 with wp_cache has handled it well, except that even without Javascript turned off writing or editing a post or a page will bring the server down. Under slighter load this hasn’t happened.
Makes me wonder if there is some deeper things wrong with the way 2.5.x handles writing to the database?
First, thank you very much, this thread pretty much saved my sanity.
I’ve been suffering with this problem. Only thing that has helped was turning of Javascript when posting. Either a clean re-install with a fresh databse didn’t help, or something in my setting re-created the problem after installation.
For me the script doesn’t crash Firefox, just somehow causes the server to eat up all the memory and slow to a crawl with swapping.
