I don't see anything wrong with your settings. Nothing you have set should cause a continuous load increase. Again, what version of vB was it that you didn't have the problem with?
Also, I submit for your consideration that, as I said earlier, if your server's load average is usually at 5.00, your server is usually at 100% utilization already. Adding even a small amount of extra load to an overloaded server will just stack up and cause requests to take even longer. Maybe it's time to upgrade.
That said, there are significant changes between the vB3.0 and vB3.5 version of my mod to deal with hook locations, and it is possible that that is contributing.
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