I've had a look around on the system at what might be causing the slowness of the wiki.
The number of used inodes was a bit high, so I ran some maintenance tools on the wikis to reduce them. A restart of Apache didn't help much. The processes went straight to 100% again. I then ran a log trace of the access log and found that the wiki us being hit by massive and continuous stream of login attempts and new account creations. I guess the spammers have us on the radar again... The IP addresses vary a lot, but the user agent strings are mostly the same: "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)". All three wikis are affected, so this may be a botnet. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jan 07 2015) >>> Python Projects, Coaching and Consulting ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC Plone/Zope Database Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www
