lochinvar

We found it. core control http logging was turned on and then forgotten. wp_posts: 300,000 records at 3.6 GB.
turned off and cleaned the table. Site is running very well now.

I have a quick and dirty solution for this now.
edit the wp-includes/kses.php file
in the allowedposttags array, scroll down to the image entry and add an new array element ‘title’=>array()

here is my entry
‘img’ => array(
‘alt’ => array (),
‘align’ => array (),
‘border’ => array (),
‘class’ => array (),
‘height’ => array (),
‘hspace’ => array (),
‘longdesc’ => array (),
‘vspace’ => array (),
‘src’ => array (),
‘style’ => array (),
‘width’ => array (),
‘title’ => array()),

Hello there. We are still battling this issue in 3.0.3 but it seems the only accounts that can save the image title are the admin accounts.

Sorry I should have mentioned that we saw this issue with both 2.x and 3.x installed.

And I should learn to read the original post fully before replying. Ignore the bit about caching

We were running into the same issue for a number of months. Web logs pointed to request that were constantly being redirected and would eventual max out the redirect tries. At some point this would bring down our server, usually just after we published a set of posts. Well, four posts, but it was always at 9pm pst and we would see the server go down about 25 minutes after that.

We turned on caching and the problem disappeared. I know that I should go back and figure out why the redirects were maxing out but now that the server has stopped crashing it is low priority.