If it was a disc issue it would be happening all the time.
It's something chewing on the database which is locking it up causing the error.
It always seems to happen when I am not In front of a computer when it happens, so I can never catch it to find out whats causing it. When the process is done the site returns to its normal speeds.
I wish I was better with MySQL so I could better track it down.
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