If Drupal 6 is experiencing slow admin pages,
Go to system table and change the value of 'status', 'bootstrap' and 'throttle' to 0
update system s
set s.status=0, s.throttle=0, s.bootstrap=0
where filename = 'modules/update/update.module'
Now you should be able to access the ./admin area :)
A more detailed fix is at http://www.tmsnetwork.org/blog/content/2008/08/22/drupal-6-slow-administ...
