My apologies if this has come up before; I couldn't find anything in the archives so thought I'd ask.
Is there something that makes the smaller Wikipedias really really slow? I've been noticing "edit this page" on el: often takes on the order of 20-40 seconds, even during times when it's around 2-5 seconds on en:. Editing is the most egregious case, but even viewing pages can take 10-20 seconds on el: but rarely more than 3 or 4 on en:, and page loads time out maybe 3-5% of the time on el:, which almost never happens these days on en: (for me, anyway). It's not entirely consistent, but it's a fairly noticeable difference. I thought this might be something to do with less-frequently-accessed wikipedias not having their database tables in RAM as often, but it seems to happen even if I try editing the same page 2-3 times in a row, after which I would've guessed the tables should be loaded into memory (but I could be wrong on that). In any case, it makes editing or reading el: a lot more unpleasant than editing or reading en:, which doesn't help with getting a small project going.
-Mark