We had something hitting the classifieds several hundred times a second. Not sure if it's a malfunctioning search bot, or something malicious. But I've temporarily turned off the classifieds. I'm going to bring it back up in another 30m or so, and hope the bot went away. Also going to fix them so you can't hit the search that many times that quickly. But that might take a bit longer. Sorry for the trouble. (And yes, I also rebooted thing and ran a quick update, but those were unrelated to the slowdown.)
-Ibrahim
