Comments Disabled Due To Excessive Server Load

The server load that comments are putting on this server are unmanageable. I’ll try upgrading to the latest version of phpnuke soon to see if that improves it, but I likely will put in forums instead and just redirect comments to the forum. The comments posted were causing my server loads to spike above 50.00, and now with them off, they are at 0.32 currently… big difference obviously.