[axxs-sysadmin] rebooted axxs.org

[aketus]

On closer inspection of AptGetAnarchy logs, the site got crawled by  
spambots for about 30 minutes straight...

They don't even try to leave spam, but judging by the spam-network IP  
addresses, they weren't search engine robots either.

aketus



Quoting Dave Fregon <dave at netaxxs.com.au>:

> On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 13:19 +1100, aketus wrote:
>> Was wondering why I couldn't access anything! Ok.
>> Bit concerned about aptgetanarchy.org - I've turned on the throttle
>> module, because the amount of guests visiting it has jumped from the
>> odd one or two to, say, 20 to 40+. Possibly spambots, either that or
>> it's just become a damn popular site.
>
> Some things to investigate that would help in general with quite a few
> sites not just yours :
>
> caching : what caching options are available for drupal in particular
> (most all of the sites that end up using quite a bit of db are drupal
> sites on the server)
>
> mod_gzip
>
> can you run drupal thru a proxy such as squid to cache?
>
> can you have anonymous views with a different caching than folk logged
> in? (means you can really cache the anon, but not the logged in that are
> adding/editing content)
>
> that'll give you some fun, also if you find a standard kinda system, we
> could script it for all drupal setups for instance ...
>
> Dave
>
>
>>
>> aketus
>>
>>
>> Quoting Dave Fregon <dave at netaxxs.com.au>:
>>
>> > http processes were massive, it was easier to reboot than to try and
>> > pull down the processes it was taking so long ..
>> >
>> > .. turned Adelaide off again, changes last night to my.cnf seemed to
>> > work for a while getting rid of sleeping processes .. but something in
>> > the code just sends stuff in a whirl.
>> >
>> > Having another go at some rewrites again tonight.
>> >
>> > Dave
>> >
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aketus