Still Struggling With FastCGI
I've upgraded to the latest version of MT (3.34) and although everything seemed to be working correctly I had an error log that was going crazy with line after line of problems. The StyleCatcher, Widget and Google API plugins didn't get along with FastCGI at all, and after disabling the plugins there's no more errors.
This is not, however, an ideal scenario, and I shouldn't have to disable anything! The switch to FastCGI with 3.34 is the easiest of all the versions and the improved speed of rebuilds and entry saves has been worth the effort.
I've been dilligently reading lots of blogs with the latest version and FastCGI implemented to see if any had the same problems as me, and after many searches I feel like I'm on my own. The only thing I can think is the old templates I'm using on Toni's Corner of the World. I've read that older templates can be the cause of many problems.
MT never seems to give back all the memory it grabs. At least, the size of the perl process grows continually. I've juryrigged something to restart lighttpd every so often to deal with that.