while some wax rhapsodic about gallery2 being the PHP on rails, it looks more like PHP on snails to me:
rothfuss@lasagne(~)> w
22:35:04 up 45 days, 1:45, 1 user, load average: 88.54, 80.75, 64.96
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
rothfuss pts/0 c-66-30-12-68.hs 22:31 45.00s 0.11s 0.07s w
ever since i attempted to install a new module for googlemaps integration, gallery2 has been turning a failing cache lookup into a denial of service.