One client of ours was facing severe issues with their relatively new well equipped server: the server stopped responding to web requests, and was rebooted, only to stop responding again.
Upon investigation, we found out that pages were taking a lot of time to load.

This only happened when viewing a node in full page view, not when the
nodes were in lists (just as in views, node edit form ...etc.)

Devel was showing this:

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