Page creation performance

[Black Viper]

Have you experienced any page creation issues with this modification installed? I am currently experiencing extreme delays with this modification with regards to page creations upwards of 10 seconds. If not, I will try to isolate further.

BV EDIT: this is using SMF 2.0 RC3

[SMFHacks]

Haven't experienced any delays but that said I do not have large active sites.
I would check the mysql query usage to see if anything is related.

[Black Viper]

Well, at first I thought it was an SSI issue, so I removed all of that code and only have SMF forums active.
Then after much troubleshooting, this morning, I decided to start from scratch and uploaded a clean forum and put my mods back on.
It did not take long to see the issue again. Note: this is not on every page view, just every 5 to 20 views the creation time will spike. I only have 30 or so guests active at a time with only me logged in, so it is not a large site by any definition.
I checked around using "status.php" located on the official forums and cannot find anything that jumps out as causing issues.
A bit of what I am seeing is here:
http://bbs.blackviper.com/index.php/topic,2844.0.html

[Black Viper]

I don't think it is this mod so never mind.
I uninstalled it and even though the spikes are farther between and less (spike to 3 seconds instead of 10), I still have the issue after about 10 to 20 page views.
Thanks anyway.

[SMFHacks]

One tip I like to do is level 2 caching on the forums it really helps also moving user uploaded avatars to its own directory

[Black Viper]

One tip I like to do is level 2 caching on the forums it really helps also moving user uploaded avatars to its own directory

This is shared hosting without any caching enabled. I am kicking around going to VPS, but I do not wish to spend the extra money right now for it not to be the problem. I thought I had uploaded avatars in their own directory, but it looks like they are camping out in the attachments directory.
The bum deal about this is I have a mediawiki wiki going and I have zero slowdowns on that software. In fact, it is crazy fast. However, no users or anything with it, just me and non-logged page readers.