Yesterday I received an automatic notice from Dreamhost that we’re using up too many CPU cycles on our server.  Specifically, we’re using 80-90 minutes of processor time daily.

Over the next few days, I’ll be doing some stuff to try to bring this down.  I’ll be changing some PHP settings to get an idea of what part of EE is causing the problem, and I’ll probably be upgrading the EE install itself.

There may be some brokenness or “The system is down for maintenance” messages in the process.  None of these should last more than 5 minutes at any given time.

I’ll be backing up the database and files immediately before each action that has any remote possibility of breakage.

Sorry for any stupidness that takes place.