On Monday 30, 2011, we experienced a short outage of 4 minutes, from 3:54pm to 3:58pm ET
The Apache server on the API servers crashed because of an Out-Of-Memory error. A slower database(s) may have slowed down the process, piling up the process until the server could not handle the memory load; then the kernel killed the apache process.
The impact was only on the V2 servers and the API users.