Server Load issues?

I posted a reply in a forum, and waited for some time before the post went through. I then went back to edit the post, and waited even longer.

The results below show that there apparently is a server load issue?

Page generated in 66.94698 seconds with 30 queries
Page generated in 299.46092 seconds with 23 queries

Just FYI. I understand that this is a very large, active, website that probably strains the servers. It just seems that's a bit long for queries.

I've noticed that too today. I usually don't have to wait so long for my post to go through, but a few minutes ago it said page generated in 197 seconds with something like 47 queries. After it finally went through I noticed it had posted the post twice, so I went in and deleted one on the duplicates, which didn't take so long.It usually isn't this slow this time of day, maybe there is a few more people on the site than usual?

I'm having issues with my avitar not showing up half the time, its hosted here so I assume its AF being laggy.