<div dir="ltr">Since a large number of clients were creating tickets and requesting invalid links from Trac, I've additionally installed Fail2Ban. Every IP which requests a specific type of invalid URL or tries to create a ticket without being authorized for 5 times, gets "expelled" for 4 weeks.<div>
<br></div><div>Fail2Ban has collected a significant number of IPs which were exhibiting this behaviour already and the pressure on the Trac daemons seems to have dropped. The load average on the box has dropped to 0.17.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Erik.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:21 AM, Erik Huelsmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ehuels@gmail.com" target="_blank">ehuels@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Some bot was filling up the gsharp trac ticket database: it had created 800,000+ tickets, making all access very slow. I've moved the gsharp trac database out of the way for now and started a process to remove the spam tickets (all tickets with numbers 13 and up).<div>
<br></div><div>Hopefully that will result in better performance for a while. I'll put gsharp's trac back when it's cleaned. I'll also remove guest access to create tickets.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div>
<div><br></div><div>Erik.</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Erik Huelsmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ehuels@gmail.com" target="_blank">ehuels@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Anton,<div><br></div><div>I killed all running trac daemons. Hopefully that fixed it. When I have a bit more time, I'll have a look to see if the robots.txt file for <a href="http://trac.common-lisp.net" target="_blank">trac.common-lisp.net</a> should be updated.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Bye,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Erik.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Anton Vodonosov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avodonosov@yandex.ru" target="_blank">avodonosov@yandex.ru</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>I am trying to use CMUCL trac again - it is barely working, long response times, Gateway Timeouts somtimes.</div>
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Maybe the bots crawl it so hard, that the system is overloaded again?</div><div> </div><div>Best regards,</div><div>- Anton</div>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div></div></div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Bye,<div><br></div><div>Erik.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://efficito.com/" target="_blank">http://efficito.com</a> -- Hosted accounting and ERP.</div>
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