@alt f4 said he killed elastasearch to see if that was causing the slowdown.
Our host got back to me and said it was
caused by PHP-FPM reaching its process limit. The server logs showed the warning indicating that the
max_children value was set too low, which prevented PHP from handling concurrent requests efficiently.
To resolve this, we increased the PHP-FPM
max_childrenvalue from
6 to 30 and adjusted
max_requests to 120 to improve request handling and process recycling.
I’m sure that means more to you then it did to me