Update: Adam emailed me back following their investigation into the matter. Here's what they found:
This seems to be an isolated incident. That being said, I don't think an upgrade at this point is necessary. From the best I can tell, this was cause by an hung apache child process. I'm not able to narrow it down further than that unfortunately.
The big issue here, of course, is they way they handled this incident -- by shutting down the OSFlash server. Instead, they should have (a) restarted the server, (b) noted whether or not the load issue resurfaced to see whether it was an isolated incident or not, (c) investigated the cause of the issue, and only then should they have emailed me with information on the issue and, if necessary, asked me to upgrade.
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