I don't see any information related to PerlMonks in your post you are just assuming the slowness is caused by MySQL.

I wasn't an assumption. It was information about PerlMonks as I told you it was. Why are you contradicting me without any knowledge in the matter? (Questioning me would be different.)

Unless you can prove it, You or one of the developers then PerlMonks does fall in the "most websites" category I mentioned before

It has been proven. tye has spent a lot of time working on this. I don't know the details, but I'm pretty sure some of them were posted to the site in the past.

One of the issues is that working with the software on which PerlMonks is based involves a lot of round trips to the database. Another involves issues with running MySQL on FreeBSD.

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