[DevilYellow]

ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'vbuser'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
....it doesnt like my logging in locally....

User Permissions vbuser - hosts 'any'
Datbase Permissions - vbdb - vbuser - any hosts
Host Permissions (was IP but now any host)

I would be confused as to why it works 99.9% of the time otherwise tho.

Went from 11am yesterday on with out having problems ... occasional load spike but never dropped the DB.

I am questioning the apache and mysql configs...

I did find this in my httpd error_log

[mon Nov 13 08:31:34 2006] [error] [client 24.91.100.190] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 104857600 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 71 bytes) in /var/www/html/forums/search.php on line 988, referer: http://www.******.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116710

 [mon Nov 13 08:32:28 2006] [error] [client 24.91.100.190] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 104857600 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 71 bytes) in /var/www/html/forums/search.php on line 988, referer: http://www.******.com/forums/search.php

 [mon Nov 13 08:32:55 2006] [error] [client 24.91.100.190] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 104857600 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 71 bytes) in /var/www/html/forums/search.php on line 988, referer: http://www.******.com/forums/search.php

....I put my 2 RSS feeds to 12 hours instead of 30 min and I turned on the Cached Posts Lifespan and set it to 5. Also ran a repair/optimize on all the tables.

I think these things could all help - but I am very curious as to why I was getting such load spikes and couldnt see the DB.