trillianjedi - 10:45 am on Aug 22, 2006 (gmt 0)

I can't remember now, but I'm sure there's something in the admin panel for it. Switch off session ID's and use cookies only.

You may well have various bots getting caught in a loop on the SID's thereby causing the problem.

It's one of a few things to check. The other is to ensure that your copy of phpBB(2?) is patched up to date.

You shouldn't be having this problem - phpBB is fairly light on MySQL. My guess is you've got sesion ID's in your URL's and something is crawling you heavily.

Did you notice a large volume of "guests" viewing the forum?

TJ