With nearly 400,000 posts, I assume you're on a dedicated server?
6.5 has an annoying bug that can bite forums with large numbers of forums and users that read many, many topics in one session - it involves new post notification not working correctly. The upcoming 6.5.1 release fixes the problem, so you'll probably want to wait for it.
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