In addition to the empty dashboard, I’ve noticed some other bad things.
When editing a simple 2-line post, under Post Revisions, all I see is:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 10485760 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 76216 bytes) in query.php on line 2501
Again, if I deactivate Akismet, everything is fine.
Could this be memory limit related?
I suspect a server config issue, but we’re running many older WP installs (up to 2.6.2 with Akismet 2.1.8) without any problems.
Any ideas?