I ran into this same issue with pair.com when running Greymatter or MT.  They suggested calling the CGIs through their CGI wrapper.  It is detailed at http://www.pair.com/pair/support/library/s...gi/cgiwrap.html .

This runs the CGI under your user id rather than the nobody account, and supposedly allows more memory usage per script.  All you would have to do is initially link to the message board as http://www.movabletype.org/
cgi-sys/cgiwrap/accountnamehere/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi instead of what you have now.  This would mean moving the cgi to the cgi-bin because of security reasons.

Before I switched to running through this buffer, Greymatter would choke half way through rebuilding everything with internal server errors. Now it works fine.  Hope that helps!

Yes, definitely... thanks, machaus! You have improved our experience w/ the board and MT greatly (seriously--this was very frustrating).

You may notice that when using the board, you'll get an internal error from time to time.

Usually if you reload, your changes have already been recorded. Sometimes, this is not the case.

The problem has to do with our hosting provider, Pair Networks. If a cgi is taking too much system resources, Pair will kill the process and give you that error.

Of course "too much system resources" sometimes doesn't mean more than clicking on a title of a thread.

We may have to upgrade our account or find another provider.

Just wanted to let you know about this problem.

Seems better, yes?