You are using image handler, right?
I saw a site recently that used IH and it did the very same thing. The cause turned out to be a 1MB image file attempting to be resized on-the-fly by IH but croaking.
Check that the images for the products in that category are appropriately sized. Or turn off IH temporarily to see if it makes any difference.
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