What should I do to resovle the flush-hosts problem? If it's hardware we need, then it's hardware we shall have. Is the problem solvable by ram? By CPU?

I'm ready to throw some money at this thing again. Suggestions would be much appreciated.

Of course, it'd also be groovy if everyone who is working on a Phase IV idea might be willing to stop porting, or to port with a STRONG eye towards helping with the performance problem. Clever tweaks to the site to avoid DB queries would probably be *most* helpful, but which queries to avoid?

--Jimbo