[forums-announce] update on forums performance

[klieber]

Brief update. We believe we've isolated the cause of the recent (last 24-48 hours) forums slowness. The machine that houses the database is simply running out of RAM. Currently, it has 2GB of RAM. We have another machine with 4GB available that we will be moving things to soon. This will require roughly 6 hours of downtime to dump the database, move it over to the new machine and restore it. We will be scheduling this downtime for early next week.

--kurt
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