[ic] Check Out Freezing Up

[STEVE LANGE]

Hello all,
 
  We've recently installed 4.8.1, and while using the foundation store, we've been running into the following problem.  When you click 'check out' from the basket page, everything hangs.  The only log message I can seem to find says:
 
hammered PID 17111 running 300 seconds
 
  Any ideas?  We haven't even modified the basket or cart pages yet.  We didn't have this problem with the 4.6 versions.
 
   Thanks in advance,
 
    Steve