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Another (techy) update

For those interested (TECH-ALERT!):

Turns out the eAccelerator PHP extension was not very amused by the new x64 kernel and/or SMP setup. Not sure exactly why, but it caused a lot of random crashes if the web-server module. This resulted in empty pages being rendered AND cached. So once a crash occurred for a particular URL the result (empty page) would get cached and delivered each time the browser would request that particular page.

So, to fix that I could try updating / recompiling eAccelerator or give APC a try - which I wanted to do for quite some time. I chose the latter one.

http://eaccelerator.net/
http://pecl.php.net/package/APC