Search replication failing - disheartened

[WotC_Mel]

Thank you for replying.

Here are the answers, straight from my tech's email:

> What connection is between these 2 servers?
100 Mbits/s link. I have the ability to upgrade to 1000 Mbits/s if it will help.

> Is there any reason found that can be causing this corruption? Extreme high loads in traffic and/or server load on any of these 2 servers?
While there is a lot of traffic on the master database, generally the load doesn't go over 4, with the average usually under 1.
Apache runs on a separate machine which frequently has extremely high load levels.

> What are the server specs?
Master and Slave run on dual processor 2.4 GHz Xeon with 2GB of memory on a hardware RAID 1 system partition and a hardware RAID 5 data partition.

I am hopeful in many ways for 3.5 release and am monitoring that discussion, however not a lot of it leads me to believe that "big boards" are going to experience significant performance help. I hope I am wrong, but I feel like I am trying to get a sqare peg to fit a round hole in terms of scalability.

-Mel